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Title: Family Formation Experiences: Shares of Women Who Married and had a Birth, 1979 & 2016
Citation Type: Working Paper
Publication Year: 2019
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Abstract: Family formation experiences have shifted over the past several decades. Marriage, for example, has become increasingly postponed while childbearing prior to a marriage has become more common (FP-17-22; FP-17-04). This Family Profile series (companion profile is FP-19-16) examines differences in marriage and parenthood experiences over the past 37 years among women holding different demographic characteristics. The current Family Profile uses the 1979 and 2016 Fertility Supplement of the Current Population Survey to explore trends in the percentage of women who experienced marriage and the share who had a birth by the end of their childbearing years (ages 40-44). This represents the experiences of women born from 1935 to 1939, which we refer to as the Silent Generation, and women born from 1972 to 1976, whom we label Gen-X. These generational terms are used for descriptive purposes to distinguish between the two cohorts of women. Shares are estimated across racial/ethnic and educational attainment groups.
Url: https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1197&context=ncfmr_family_profiles
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Authors: Hemez, Paul
Series Title: National Center for Family & Marriage Research Series
Publication Number: FP-19-15
Institution: Bowling Green State University
Pages: 1-3
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Topics: Family and Marriage, Fertility and Mortality
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