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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.
Oct 1, 2010 · With increasing proportions of children born to never-married mothers and the attendant family instability such children experience, new approaches to thinking about how low-income women make decisions about marriage and childbearing are essential for the field to move forward.
- Susan L. Brown
- 2010
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Results. The final conceptual framework lays out five core drivers of child marriage for girls, which vary and interact across contexts. Social norms and poverty are shown as core drivers that underlie lack of agency, lack of opportunity, and pregnancy/fear of pregnancy. These drivers reflect community, household, and individual-level factors.
Previous research points to a variety of social, family, health, and financial outcomes that are strongly correlated with early teen marriage and low education. Women who marry while in their teens are two-thirds more likely to divorce within 15 years of their wedding compared with women who postpone marriage.
- Gordon B. Dahl
- 10.1353/dem.0.0120
- 2010
- Demography. 2010 Aug; 47(3): 689-718.
Apr 27, 2018 · Relation between children and marriage. The transition from cohabitation to marriage has been the focus of several demographic studies in Sweden (Bernhardt, Citation 2004; Duvander, Citation 1999) ever since cohabitation came to be more common in Sweden at the end of 20th century.
- Karin Jarnkvist
- 2019
Feb 23, 2011 · Based on 424 qualitative interviews with a racially, ethnically, and socio-economically diverse population of young people ranging in age from 21 to 38, the authors ponder the paradox of the evolving role for contemporary marriage within the developmental perspective of the transition to adulthood. The authors identify two groups: marriage ...
Mar 29, 2021 · Early Marriage Is a Response to Low Life Expectancy. Perhaps the simplest evolutionary explanation for why child marriage was universally common historically, and is still common in some contexts, is that marrying at young ages can be adaptive when mortality and/or morbidity rates are high.
