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Title: Forty Years of Change in Marriage and Motherhood Among Women, 1979 & 2020

Citation Type: Working Paper

Publication Year: 2022

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DOI: 10.18128/D030.V9.0

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Abstract: Over the past several decades, marriage has been increasingly postponed or forgone, while childbearing outside of marriage has become more common (FP-21-24, FP-21-17, FP-21-12). The current profile uses data from the 1979 and 2020 Fertility Supplement of the Current Population Survey to examine differences in the share of women who ever married and the share who ever had a birth by the end of their childbearing years (defined as ages 40-44). This represents the experiences of women born between 1935 and 1939 (part of the Silent Generation) and women born between 1976 and 1980 (part of Gen-X). We consider overall trends and disaggregate by race/ethnicity and by educational attainment.

Url: https://www.bgsu.edu/content/dam/BGSU/college-of-arts-and-sciences/NCFMR/documents/FP/brown-forty-years-change-marriage-motherhood-women-1979-2020-fp-22-19.pdf

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Authors: Brown, Adrianne R.

Series Title: Family Profile

Publication Number: 19

Institution: National Center for Family & Marriage Research

Pages: 1-2

Publisher Location: Bowling Green

Data Collections: IPUMS CPS

Topics: Family and Marriage, Gender, Reproductive and Sexual Health

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