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May 29, 2020 · The decline in marriage over the past 50 years has important implications for older African Americans, especially older African American women. First, unmarried older African American women are much more likely to live alone and they also have smaller informal social support networks than their married counterparts .
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Aug 6, 2021 · Over the past few decades, marriage rates in the United States among African Americans continue to decline, yet African American women continue to express a desire to be married. Using a grounded theory qualitative approach with semi-structured interviews ( N = 23), we explored marital attitudes among never married African American women.
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Gender was not related to romantic satisfaction, but African American women were less likely to expect marriage than African American men. In addition, African Americans with higher incomes had greater expectations of marrying than individuals with lower incomes.
Sep 27, 2021 · Abstract. It is well documented that Black women tend to experience lower marriage participation than non-Black women because of the marriage squeeze, including an unequal sex-ratio within age cohorts, and the increase in economic precarity among Black men.
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Mouzon, D. M., Taylor, R. J., & Chatters, L. M. (2020). Gender differences in marriage, romantic involvement, and desire for romantic involvement among older African Americans. PLoS ONE, 15(5), Article e0233836. https:// https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0233836
Background: Despite research on the dramatic changes in marriage, there is a dearth of research on the correlates of marriage and romantic involvement among older African Americans. This is an important omission because although the marriage decline is universal, African Americans show the steepest decline in marriage rates. Methods: Based on data ...
Gender differences in marriage, romantic involvement, and desire for romantic involvement among older African Americans.
Mouzon, Dawne M.: Edward J. Blouste in School of Planning and Public Policy, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ, US Taylor, Robert Joseph: School of Social Work, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, US Chatters, Linda M.: School of Social Work, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, US
*Blacks; *Human Sex Differences; *Marriage; *Romance; *Desire; Cohabitation; Economics; Interpersonal Relationships
African Americans; Aged; Female; Humans; Logistic Models; Male; Marriage; Probability; Sex Characteristics; Sex Factors; Surveys and Questionnaires
Statement: This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Holder: Mouzon et al. Year: 2020
Sponsor: National Institute on Aging, US Recipient: Mouzon, Dawne M.; Taylor, Robert Joseph Grant Number:P30AG015281 Sponsor: National Institute of General Medical Sciences, US Recipient: Chatters, Linda M. Grant Number:R25GM058641
Number of Citations: 54, Number of Citations Displayed: 54 1. A Profile of Older Americans: 2015 [Internet]. Washington, D. C.: U. S. Department of Health and Human Services; 2016 [cited 2016 Dec 26]. https://aoa.acl.gov/Aging_Statistics/Profile/index.aspx 2. Assari, S., Miller, R. J., Taylor, R. J., Mouzon, D., Keith, V., & Chatters, L. M. (2018)....
Aug 9, 2008 · Studies show that African American women marry later than White American women do and are less likely to ever marry. It is expected that more than 25% of African American women born in the late 1950s will never marry compared to less than 10% of White American women.
Sep 21, 2020 · This is an important omission because although the marriage decline is universal, African Americans show the steepest decline in marriage rates. Being single in older age has social and health consequences. Among older adults who live alone, African Americans (33%) are twice as likely as whites (16%) to live below the poverty line.
