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Jul 31, 2020 · In the past, parents and other relatives chose children’s spouses in much of Asia and determined when young people married. Young people in recent cohorts are more involved in making decisions about when and whom they marry, but parents are often still closely involved (Ghimire et al. 2006 ; Thornton and Lin 1994 ; Allendorf and Pandian 2016 ).
We found that some 297,033 children were married in the U.S. between 2000 and 2018: 232,474 based on marriage-certificate data plus 64,559 based on estimates ( Table 1 ). A few children were as young as 10 years when they married, but of those for whom age information was available, nearly all—96%—were aged 16 or 17 years.
Thus, the story goes, young adults are not rejecting marriage; instead, they are just waiting longer to marry. In 2010, over two-thirds (69%) of unmarried 18-29 year olds report wanting to get married (Taylor 2010) and eight in ten young adults believe it is important to be married someday (Scott, Schelar, Manlove, and Cui 2009).
Jul 17, 2020 · The UNICEF reported a reduction in the global prevalence of child marriage in the last decade, which was largely driven by prevention and care interventions in South Asia. However, 12 million girls per year still get married before the age of 18 . Thus, we have approximately 650 million women today who were married as children.
Mar 11, 2020 · Since then, both the middle class and lower class have seen a steady decline in marriage, reaching 66 percent and 38 percent, respectively, by 2018. In contrast, marriage in the upper class has ...
Oct 15, 2020 · An estimated 650 million girls and women alive today married before their 18th birthday. Referred to as girl child marriage, the formal or informal union of the girl-child before age 18, the practice is increasingly recognized as a key roadblock to global health, development, and gender equality. Although more research than ever has focused on girl child marriage, an important gap remains in ...
THE HETEROGENEITY OF YOUNG ADULT RELATIONSHIPS. Recent research on marriage and mental health differentiates among married adults and those who are living in cohabiting relationships (e.g., Brown 2000; Kim and McKenry 2002; Lamb et al. 2003; Marcussen 2005), as well as those in non-cohabiting romantic relationships (Ross 1995; Fleming, White, and Catalano 2010; Simon and Barrett 2010).
