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Title: Recently Divorced Adults with Resident Minor Children
Citation Type: Miscellaneous
Publication Year: 2016
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Abstract: The U.S. divorce rate has dropped by nearly 25% since 1979 (FP-15-18) with 17.6 women divorcing per 1,000 married women in 2014. Many of these divorces are among parents, yet there is no recent data on parenthood status among divorced individuals (Amato, 2000). This profile addresses this gap by using data from the 2014 American Community Survey (ACS), 1-year estimates to identify whether there are children present in the household among individuals ages 15-55 who experienced a divorce (divorcees) in the past year. Some divorcees have nonresident children, so these estimates of the proportion of recent divorces involving children are conservative. We compare divorcees to their counterparts - married parents who did not experience a divorce in the past year (consistently married). We also examine the prevalence of resident minor children among recent divorcees by race/ethnicity and educational attainment.
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Authors: Eickmeyer, Kasey J
Publisher: National Center for Family & Marriage Research
Data Collections: IPUMS USA
Topics: Family and Marriage, Other
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