Effects of Childhood Family Structure on the Transition to Marriage

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Increasing rates of marital dissolution mean that many more children than in the past spend part of their childhood in single-parent families. The effects of family structure during the teenage years on the likelihood of marriage later for both males and females are explored. Using data from 2 national longitudinal surveys of young people, analysis finds that childhood family patterns do influence the later family formation of the children involved. The experience of disruption of parental marriage affects sons and daughters and blacks and whites somewhat differently. The paper describes these patterns in detail and discusses their implications.

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