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Amato, Paul R.; Kane, Jennifer B. – Journal of Family Issues, 2011
The authors used data from the Add Health study to estimate the effects of parents' marital status and relationship distress on daughters' early family formation transitions. Outcomes included traditional transitions (marriage and marital births) and nontraditional transitions (cohabitation and nonmarital births). Relationship distress among…
Descriptors: Marital Status, Daughters, One Parent Family, Interpersonal Relationship
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Binstock, Georgina; Thornton, Arland – Journal of Marriage and Family, 2003
The goal of this study was to track and compare the paths along which young adults arrange and time the entries and exits from marital and cohabiting unions. The focus was on the incidence, durations, and outcomes of dimensions that embrace residential separation. Results show that union trajectories are dynamic and involve a heterogeneous and…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Cohabitation, Dating (Social), Interaction Process Analysis