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Author: Luo, Shaung
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1. Luo, Shaung
The Effects of Parental Marital Change on Cohabitation Behavior of Young Adulthood
Presented: Honolulu, HI, Hawaii International Conference on Social Sciences, June 2003.
Also: http://www.hicsocial.org/Social2003Proceedings/Shuang%20Luo%201.pdf
Cohort(s): NLSY79, NLSY79 Young Adult
Publisher: Hawaii International Conferences
Keyword(s): Cohabitation; Divorce; Intergenerational Patterns/Transmission; Parental Influences; Parental Marital Status; Remarriage

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Using 2000 NLSY79 Youth and NLSY79 Young Adult, this study examines the intergenerational effects of parental marital experience on the cohabitation behaviors of children in their young adulthood. Consistent with previous findings, divorce alone proved to have no relevance to children's probability early cohabitation. On the other hand, remarriage and the number of mother's spouse/partners are found to be positively related to early cohabitation of daughters, especially if mother's remarriage occurred between age 6 and 12, indicating an erosion effect of parental marital change at younger age (before age 6) and buffering effect at older age (after age 13). The fact that mothers' remarriage has stronger effect on daughters than sons may be explained from role model and socialization point of view. Also, the effect is stronger for white females, suggesting the difference among low-divorce populations and high-divorce ones in terms of susceptibility to the deleterious impact of parental marital change.
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Luo, Shaung. "The Effects of Parental Marital Change on Cohabitation Behavior of Young Adulthood." Presented: Honolulu, HI, Hawaii International Conference on Social Sciences, June 2003.