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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 [ 43 ] and they also have smaller informal social support networks than their married counterparts [ 44 ].
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Despite research on the dramatic changes in marriage, there...
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Correlates of Dating. In their groundbreaking examination of...
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May 29, 2020 · 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 from the National Survey of American Life ...
- Dawne M. Mouzon, Robert Joseph Taylor, Linda M. Chatters
- 2020
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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 ...
- Kendra P. DeLoach McCutcheon, Karen Y. Watkins, Eboni V. Burton, Arlaina C. Harris
- 2021
Among older African American married adults, older age was associated with higher marital satisfaction, and men had higher levels of marital satisfaction than women. Also, married older African Americans with lower family incomes reported higher marital satisfaction. Region was the only variable significantly associated with romantic ...
Sep 1, 2018 · How the African American Marriage Decline Affects Everyone, the Stanford University law professor Ralph Richard Banks asserts that for black women, “[B]eing unmarried has become the new normal, single the new black” (6). As Rebecca Wanzo, one of the contributors to this special issue, has wisely pointed out in another venue, facts and ...
- Ann duCille
- 2018
The result, according to The Decline in Marriage Among African Americans, is a greater share of family responsibilities being borne by women, an increased vulnerability to poverty and violence, and an erosion of community ties. The original, often controversial, research presented in this book links marital decline to a pivotal drop in the pool ...
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.
