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Child Marriage in the United States: Prevalence and Implications - Journal of Adolescent Health. Commentary | Volume 69, ISSUE 6, SUPPLEMENT , S8-S10, December 2021. Download Full Issue. Child Marriage in the United States: Prevalence and Implications. Fraidy Reiss. Open Access DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jadohealth.2021.07.001.
- 155 Lessons Learned from Non-Marriage Experiments
- Sara McLanahan
- Janet M. Currie
- Ron Haskins
- Cecilia Elena Rouse
- Lisa Markman-Pithers
- 89 The Growing Racial and Ethnic Divide in U.S. Marriage Patterns
- 111 One Nation, Divided: Culture, Civic Institutions, and the Marriage Divide
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- A Decade of Change
- Summary of the Articles
- Implications for Policy
- Summary
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- Conceptual Framework
- A Lone Mother
- A Father Living Apart
- A Coresident Father
- Some Empirical Challenges
- Indirect Evidence on Mediating Mechanisms
- Direct Evidence
- Conclusions
- Summary
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- A“quiet
- Conclusions
- Summary
- How Do Children Fare in Cohabiting Parent Families?
- Policy has been inconsistent in its treatment of cohabiting parent families.
- Social Science and Political Debates
- Social Science on Trial
- Child Health and Wellbeing
- Married Same-Sex Couples
- Reasons to Marry
- Conclusions: New Opportunities for Family Research
- The Growing Racial and Ethnic Divide in U.S. Marriage Patterns
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- Explanations for the Black-White Marriage Gap by Education
- Inequality and the Continuing Significance of Race
- One Nation, Divided: Culture, Civic Institutions, and the Marriage Divide
- Summary
- Policy, Cultural, and Civic Strategies for Stronger Families
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- Changes in Family Composition: So What?
- What to Do: Government Policy
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- Men’s Economic Standing and Marriage
- Possibilities and Pitfalls
- Review of Experiments
- Conclusions
- Effects on Men’s and Women’s Marriage
- Several interventions offer evidence that increasing women’s economic resources can increase marriage.
- The Limits of Experimental Design
- Future Research
- Sara McLanahan
- Janet M. Currie
- Ron Haskins
- Cecilia Elena Rouse
- Lisa Markman-Pithers
COLLABORATION OF THE WOODROW WILSON SCHOOL OF PUBLIC AND INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS AT PRINCETON UNIVERSITY AND THE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION COLLABORATION OF THE WOODROW WILSON SCHOOL OF PUBLIC AND INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS AT PRINCETON UNIVERSITY AND THE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION The Future of Children promotes effective policies and programs for children by prov...
Editor-in-Chief Princeton University Director, Center for Research on Child Wellbeing, and William S. Tod Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs
Senior Editor Princeton University Director, Center for Health and Wellbeing; Chair, Department of Economics; and Henry Putnam Professor of Economics and Public Affairs
Senior Editor Brookings Institution Senior Fellow, Cabot Family Chair, and Co-Director, Center on Children and Families
Senior Editor Princeton University Dean, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Katzman-Ernst Professor in the Economics of Education, and Professor of Economics and Public Affairs
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by W. Bradford Wilcox, Nicholas H. Wolfinger, and Charles E. Stokes
Sara McLanahan is the editor-in-chief of the Future of Children, as well as the director of the Center for Research on Child Wellbeing and the William S. Tod Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs at Princeton University. Isabel Sawhill is a senior editor of the Future of Children, as well as a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. accompl...
Although many of the findings and conclusions of the earlier issue remain relevant, the past decade has produced a number of developments and research findings that made it worthwhile to revisit marriage and child wellbeing. Whereas most scholars now agree that children raised by two biological parents in a stable marriage do better than children i...
The first two articles in this issue explore the link between marriage and child wellbeing. In “Why Marriage Matters for Child Wellbeing,” David Ribar theorizes that, all else equal, marriage should produce advantages that can improve children’s wellbeing, such as better coordination between parents and economies of scale that make limited resource...
Marriage education programs haven’t had much success. They were launched with high hopes more than a decade ago, but they have had little impact on marriage rates, which continue to fall. That doesn’t necessarily mean we shouldn’t continue to look for ways to improve relationships among young adults, including decision-making or interpersonal skill...
Marriage between two parents, compared with other family living arrangements, appears, on average, to enhance children’s wellbeing and development. Some of the positive association between marriage and children’s wellbeing comes from positive associations between marriage and other things that also contribute to children’s wellbeing. David Ribar fi...
David Ribar is a professorial research fellow at the Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, University of Melbourne, Australia. Alexandra Killewald of Harvard University reviewed and critiqued a draft of this paper. Ribar thanks Ron Haskins, Sara McLanahan, Richard Rothstein, Isabel Sawhill, Jon Wallace, Anna Zhu, and particip...
To frame my analysis, I begin with a relatively straightforward theoretical economic model of how different types of families produce child wellbeing. Models are abstractions that necessarily simplify processes, but they let us focus on potential mechanisms for the impacts of family structure and, most importantly, explain relationships that we obs...
Consider a mother raising a child whose father is wholly uninvolved with the child’s upbringing. Let’s put aside any behavior or decision-making by the child and instead focus on the mother’s behavior. Assume that the mother values both her child’s wellbeing and her own consumption of other goods in the present, and also assume that she considers a...
Now consider a father who doesn’t live with the mother and child but acknowledges paternity. We look at the father individually because he and the mother are both decision-makers. Let’s assume that, like the mother, the father values his child’s wellbeing and his own consumption now and in the future. We can modify the process for producing child w...
Based on the model, having a father who lives with the mother and child will confer several additional advantages for child wellbeing relative to having a father who lives apart. Many of these advantages can be considered “efficiencies” in the context of our earlier list of mechanisms. The first efficiency is that it costs less for family members t...
Before running down our leads, we need to consider some formidable challenges in developing the empirical evidence. A central methodological challenge in analyzing mechanisms empirically, as in the analysis of the total impacts of marriage, is known as selection. Our theoretical discussion provides many reasons that marriage might improve children’...
With these methodological caveats in mind, we can now discuss evidence regarding the hypothesized pathways through which marriage might affect children’s wellbeing. The evidence in this section is indirect and mostly takes the form of empirical associations between family structure and the hypothesized mediating mechanisms, but does not go on to co...
Empirical researchers who investigate the effects of marriage on child wellbeing frequently discuss certain mechanisms as explanations for why marriage might affect child wellbeing, and sometimes researchers try to account for these mechanisms directly in their analyses. Typically, the researchers’ statistical models include measures of family stru...
Researchers have offered numerous causal explanations for the observed empirical association between marriage among biological parents and children’s wellbeing. Their theoretical analyses almost always consider several of these explanations but frequently discuss only enough of them to justify a general empirical analysis of the relationship betwee...
Since 1950, marriage behavior in the United States has changed dramatically. Though most men and women still marry at some point in their lives, they now do so later and are more likely to divorce. Cohabitation has become commonplace as either a precursor or an alternative to marriage, and a growing fraction of births take place outside marriage. W...
Shelly Lundberg is the Broom Professor of Demography at the University of California–Santa Barbara and Professor II, University of Bergen. Robert Pollak is the Hernreich Distinguished Professor of Economics in Arts and Science and the Olin Business School at Washington University in St. Louis and a research associate of the National Bureau of Econo...
revolution” in American women’s careers, education, and family arrangements began in the 1970s.2 During the prosperous years of the post-war baby boom, couples married after leaving school, and most young mothers stayed at home with their children. Many mothers returned to the labor force when their children were grown, but their educational and ca...
Since 1950, the sources of gains that people can expect from marriage have changed rapidly and radically. As women’s educational attainment surpassed that of men and the ratio of men’s to women’s wages fell, the traditional pattern of gender specialization and division of labor in the household weakened. The primary source of gains to marriage shif...
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Mar 29, 2019 · March 29, 2019. UPDATE: The Georgia Senate passed the bill Wednesday. The amended legislation now returns to the state House for a final vote. With or without parental consent, children...
Gabrielle Bremer. Abstract. This article looks at child marriage in Georgia and Niger. Though Georgia has improved their child marriage laws, 14 percent of girls nationwide are still getting married off before they are 18 years old. The percentage of child marriage is considerably higher in Georgia’s rural areas.
Feb 14, 2022 · 21 Altmetric. Metrics. Abstract. Background. Child marriage, defined as marriage before 18 years of age, is a violation of human rights and a marker of gender inequality. Growing attention to this issue on the global development agenda also reflects concerns that it may negatively impact health.
