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Author: Reczek, Rin
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Reczek, Rin Stacey, Lawrence Thomeer, Mieke Beth |
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Parent-Adult Child Estrangement in the United States by Gender, Race/Ethnicity, and Sexuality Journal of Marriage and Family published online (1 December 2022): DOI: 10.1111/jomf.12898. Also: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jomf.12898 Cohort(s): NLSY79, NLSY79 Young Adult Publisher: Blackwell Publishing, Inc. => Wiley Online Keyword(s): Gender; Parent-Child Relationship/Closeness; Racial Differences; Sexual Identity Objective: To provide nationally representative estimates of parent-adult child estrangement. Background: Population-level research on parent-adult child estrangement is needed to understand the full range of family dynamics in the U.S. Methods: We estimate logistic regression models using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 and accompanying Child and Young Adult supplement to determine estimates of estrangement (and subsequent unestrangement) from mothers (N = 8495) and fathers (N = 8119) by children's gender, race/ethnicity, and sexuality. We then estimate hazards of first estrangement from mothers (N = 7919) and fathers (N = 6410), adjusting for adult child's and parents' social and economic characteristics. Results: Six percent of respondents report a period of estrangement from mothers, with an average age of first maternal estrangement of 26 years old; 26% of respondents report estrangement from fathers, with an average age of first paternal estrangement of 23 years old. Results further show heterogeneity by gender, race/ethnicity, and sexuality; for example, daughters are less likely to be estranged from their mothers than are sons, Black adult children are less likely than White adult children to be estranged from their mothers but more likely to be estranged from fathers, and gay, lesbian, and bisexual adult children are more likely than heterosexuals to be estranged from fathers. The majority of estranged adult children become unestranged from mothers (81%) and fathers (69%) in subsequent waves. |
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Reczek, Rin, Lawrence Stacey and Mieke Beth Thomeer. "Parent-Adult Child Estrangement in the United States by Gender, Race/Ethnicity, and Sexuality." Journal of Marriage and Family published online (1 December 2022): DOI: 10.1111/jomf.12898.
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Thomeer, Mieke Beth Brantley, Mia Reczek, Rin |
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Cumulative Disadvantage or Strained Advantage? Remote Schooling, Paid Work Status, and Parental Mental Health during the COVID-19 Pandemic American Sociological Association published online (26 February 2024). Also: https://doi.org/10.1177/00221465241230505 Cohort(s): NLSY97 Publisher: American Sociological Association Keyword(s): COVID-19/Coronavirus Pandemic; Depression (see also CESD); Health Disparities; Health Outcomes; Health, Mental/Psychological; Job Separation/Loss; Parenthood; Parents, Single; Race/Ethnicity; Schooling/Education, Remote; Unemployment; Work Disruption Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. During the COVID-19 pandemic, parents experienced difficulties around employment and children’s schooling, likely with detrimental mental health implications. We analyze National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 data (N = 2,829) to estimate depressive symptom changes from 2019 to 2021 by paid work status and children’s schooling modality, considering partnership status, gender, and race-ethnicity differences. We draw on cumulative disadvantage theory alongside strained advantage theory to test whether mental health declines were steeper for parents with more disadvantaged statuses or for parents with more advantaged statuses. Parents with work disruptions, without paid work, or with children in remote school experienced the greatest increases in depressive symptoms, with steepest increases among single parents without paid work and single parents with children in remote school (cumulative disadvantage), fathers without paid work (strained advantage), and White parents with remote school (strained advantage). We discuss the uneven impacts of the pandemic on mental health and implications for long-term health disparities. |
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Thomeer, Mieke Beth, Mia Brantley and Rin Reczek. "Cumulative Disadvantage or Strained Advantage? Remote Schooling, Paid Work Status, and Parental Mental Health during the COVID-19 Pandemic." American Sociological Association published online (26 February 2024).
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Thomeer, Mieke Beth Reczek, Rin |
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Life Course Patterns and Predictors of the Relationship Between Adult Children and Their Mothers Innovation in Aging 7,IS1 (21 December 2023): 567. Also: https://doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igad104.1858 Cohort(s): NLSY79, NLSY79 Young Adult Publisher: Oxford University Press Keyword(s): Childbearing; Children; Children, Home Environment; Family History; Family Studies; Life Course; Motherhood; Mothers; Parent-Child Interaction; Parent-Child Relationship/Closeness Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Studies demonstrate that the content and quality of the parent-child tie is highly variable across the life course and that multiple social factors predict different aspects of that relationship. Separate research shows that childbirth experiences (e.g., age at birth) matter for the well-being of both the mother and child. However, limited research considers how the mother’s childbearing history is associated with adult child relationships at mid-life and beyond—namely contact and emotional closeness. We use Sequence Analysis on two linked datasets—the 1979 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY79) and the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth-Young Adults (NLSY79YA) (N=1,953) to identify life course patterns of closeness and contact between adult children and their mothers. We identify six unique sequences: (1) mixed quality/contact (9.9%), (2) distant (10.0%), (3) close with decreasing contact (13.2%), (4) increasing emotional closeness with high contact (16.4%), (5) mostly close with high contact (23.2%), and (6) always close with high contact (27.3%). We use regression analysis to estimate how different aspects of the childbearing biography are associated with each category. Relationships characterized by “always close with high contact” were associated with more siblings/childbirths and older age at birth. Relationships associated with “emotionally distance” were associated with births characterized as “mistimed,” being a middle or older child, and younger age at birth. Future analysis will consider selection factors such as family histories. This project demonstrates the need for life course perspectives on the child-mother relationship, recognizing the role of childbearing histories and the important diversity within and between individuals. |
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Thomeer, Mieke Beth and Rin Reczek. "Life Course Patterns and Predictors of the Relationship Between Adult Children and Their Mothers." Innovation in Aging 7,IS1 (21 December 2023): 567.
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Thomeer, Mieke Beth Reczek, Rin Ross, Clifford |
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Childbearing Biographies and Midlife Women's Health Journal of Aging and Health published online (3 February 2022): DOI: 10.1177/08982643211070136. Also: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/08982643211070136 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Sage Publications Keyword(s): Age at First Birth; Births, Repeat / Spacing; Childbearing; Family Size; Health/Health Status/SF-12 Scale; Modeling, Latent Class Analysis/Latent Transition Analysis; Socioeconomic Status (SES) Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Objectives: We introduce a "childbearing biography" approach to show how multiple childbearing characteristics cluster in ways significant for midlife health. Methods: We analyze the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 (NLSY79; N = 3992) using mixed-mode Latent Class Analysis with eight childbearing variables (e.g., age at first birth, parity, birth spacing, and mistimed births) to identify how childbearing biographies are associated with midlife health, adjusting for key covariates--including socioeconomic status (SES) and relationship history. Results: We identify six childbearing biographies: (1) early compressed, (2) staggered, (3) extended high parity, (4) later, (5) married planned, and (6) childfree. Childbearing biographies are strongly associated with physical health but not mental health, with differences primarily explained by SES. |
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Thomeer, Mieke Beth, Rin Reczek and Clifford Ross. "Childbearing Biographies and Midlife Women's Health." Journal of Aging and Health published online (3 February 2022): DOI: 10.1177/08982643211070136.
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Thomeer, Mieke Beth Reczek, Rin Ross, Clifford Bijou, Christina |
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Sequencing of Births by Wantedness: Implications for Changes in Mid-Life Health Among Aging NLSY79 Women Journal of Gerontology Series B 78, 11 (November 2023): 1881-1891. Also: https://academic.oup.com/psychsocgerontology/article/78/11/1881/7234546?login=true Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Gerontological Society of America Keyword(s): Age at Birth; Birth Preferences/Birth Expectations; Birth, Unwanted; Births, Repeat / Spacing; Childbearing; Childbearing, Adolescent; Demography; Health Disparities; Life Course; Mothers, Adolescent; Pregnancy, Adolescent; Pregnancy, Unwanted; Womens Health Objectives: As life course frameworks highlight and gerontological studies confirm, the health implications of early birth timing (e.g., adolescent births) and unplanned births (e.g., unwanted or mistimed births) extend years after those births into mid and later life. Yet past research often overlooks the considerable diversity in sequencing and timing of unplanned births even within the same individual (e.g., having both wanted and unwanted births), which are likely fundamental for women's long-term health trajectories. We develop a holistic understanding of birth timing and wantedness to provide insight into when and how childbearing histories matter for aging women's health. Methods: We use sequence analysis with hierarchical cluster method and estimate regression models using the 1979 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (N = 3,231) to examine how timing and patterning of births by wantedness are associated with changes in physical and mental health from ages 40 to 50. Results: We identify 7 clusters of childbearing sequences. Of those 7 clusters, respondents with sequences characterized by wanted births in their 20s and 30s had the smallest declines in health in mid-life, whereas respondents with sequences with mainly unwanted births at any age or with mainly mistimed births beginning in adolescence had the greatest health declines. Adjusting for social and economic variables accounted for some, but not all, health differences across childbearing clusters. Discussion: This project demonstrates the need for comprehensive life course perspectives on long-term health implications of birth wantedness and timing, recognizing diversity within and between individuals. |
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Thomeer, Mieke Beth, Rin Reczek, Clifford Ross and Christina Bijou. "Sequencing of Births by Wantedness: Implications for Changes in Mid-Life Health Among Aging NLSY79 Women." Journal of Gerontology Series B 78, 11 (November 2023): 1881-1891.
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Thomeer, Mieke Beth Reczek, Rin Stacey, Lawrence |
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Childbearing Biographies as a Method to Examine Diversity and Clustering of Childbearing Experiences: A Research Brief Population Research and Policy Review published online (18 January 2022): DOI: 10.1007/s11113-022-09699-2. Also: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11113-022-09699-2 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Springer Keyword(s): Age at First Birth; Childbearing; Childbearing, Premarital/Nonmarital; Family Size; Heterogeneity; Marital Status Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Due to increasing heterogeneity in if, when, and under what conditions women have children, the timing, spacing, and other demographic aspects of childbearing have drastically changed in the US over the past century. Existing science tends to examine demographic aspects of childbearing separately, creating an incomplete understanding of how childbearing patterns are distributed at the population level. In this research brief, we develop the concept of childbearing biographies to emphasize that multiple childbearing characteristics cluster together. We analyze nationally representative US data from the 1979 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY79; N = 4052). Using eight childbearing variables (e.g., age at first birth, number of children, whether unmarried at any birth), we use Mixed-Mode Latent Class Analysis (MM-LCA) and identify five classes, or childbearing biographies: (1) early compressed childbearing, (2) staggered childbearing, (3) extended high-parity childbearing, (4) later childbearing, and (5) married planned childbearing. A childbearing biography approach highlights the increasingly heterogeneous contexts of parenthood today, showing how women with similar characteristics around one aspect of childbearing (e.g., early age at first birth) can also be highly divergent from each other when taking into consideration other childbearing characteristics. In showing this complexity, we highlight that a childbearing biography approach has the potential to shed new light on widening inequality among contemporary midlife women, with implications for aging and population health and well-being. |
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Thomeer, Mieke Beth, Rin Reczek and Lawrence Stacey. "Childbearing Biographies as a Method to Examine Diversity and Clustering of Childbearing Experiences: A Research Brief." Population Research and Policy Review published online (18 January 2022): DOI: 10.1007/s11113-022-09699-2.
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Thomeer, Mieke Beth Ross, Clifford Reczek, Rin Hossain, Monir |
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Women's Childbearing Histories and Their Alcohol Use at Midlife Journal of Woman and Aging published online (09 October 2023). Also: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08952841.2023.2266961 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Haworth Press, Inc. Keyword(s): Alcohol Use; Births, Repeat / Spacing; Childbearing; Latent Class Analysis; Women; Women at Mid-Life There has been increased alcohol use among mid-life women in recent decades. Given the association between alcohol use and childbearing earlier in life and the centrality of childbearing for other aspects of mid-life women's health, we examined how multiple components of childbearing histories were associated with mid-life alcohol use. Our analysis included 3,826 women from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 (NLSY79). We estimated how nine components of childbearing were associated with women's alcohol use at age 50. We investigated these components independently and also created six childbearing profiles using Mixed-Mode Latent Class Analysis (MM-LCA). The most alcohol was consumed by women without any childbirths, with older ages at first birth, with low parity, and with the same or fewer births than expected. Women with older ages at first and last birth and more childbirths were less likely to abstain from alcohol compared to women with younger ages at first and last birth and fewer childbirths. Our MM-LCA demonstrated that women with multiple childbirths over a long period of time consumed the least alcohol compared to other groups. Binge drinking at mid-life was generally not associated with childbearing histories in our models. In summary, childbearing histories mattered for women's drinking behaviors at mid-life. Given that an increasing number of women do not have children, the age at first birth continues to trend older, and parity is decreasing, we may expect mid-life women's alcohol use to continue to increase in line with these observed fertility trends. |
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Thomeer, Mieke Beth, Clifford Ross, Rin Reczek and Monir Hossain. "Women's Childbearing Histories and Their Alcohol Use at Midlife." Journal of Woman and Aging published online (09 October 2023).
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Thomeer, Mieke Ross, Clifford Reczek, Rin Bijou, Christina |
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Sequencing of Planned and Unplanned Births and Implications for Mid- and Later-Life Health among NLSY79 Women Innovation in Aging 6,S1 (November 2022): 316-317. Also: https://doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igac059.1252 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Oxford University Press Keyword(s): Birth Preferences/Birth Expectations; Health, Mental/Psychological; Health/Health Status/SF-12 Scale Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. In order to provide a more holistic understanding of how birthing experiences births are associated with midlife health, we use Sequence Analysis (SA) on the 1979 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY79; N=3,992) to examine how patterning of planned and unplanned births is associated with physical and mental health at ages 50 and 60 (SF-12). Preliminary analysis indicates that compared to respondents with only planned births, respondents with unplanned birth(s) followed by planned birth(s) have worse physical and mental health at midlife, but there is no difference in health for respondents with only planned births, only unplanned births, and planned birth(s) followed by unplanned birth(s). Future analysis with SA will consider how more detailed sequences (e.g., timing, number and type, ordering, spacing) are associated with these mid- and later-life health outcomes, taking into account selection factors such as childhood SES and educational attainment. This project demonstrates the need for life course perspectives on the long-term health implications of unplanned births, recognizing diversity within and between individuals. |
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Thomeer, Mieke, Clifford Ross, Rin Reczek and Christina Bijou. "Sequencing of Planned and Unplanned Births and Implications for Mid- and Later-Life Health among NLSY79 Women." Innovation in Aging 6,S1 (November 2022): 316-317.
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Wolfe, Joseph D. Thomeer, Mieke Reczek, Rin |
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Age at First Birth and Women's Midlife Health: Cohort and Race Differences Across the 20th Century Social Science & Medicine Volume 331 (August 2023). Also: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2023.116097 Cohort(s): Mature Women, NLSY79 Publisher: Elsevier Keyword(s): Childbearing; Childbearing, Adolescent; Education; Education, Adult; Life Course; Midlife Health; Mothers; Mothers, Health; Racial Differences; Racial Studies; Socioeconomic Background; Socioeconomic Status (SES); Women; Womens Health We test whether the negative association between socially “early” childbearing and poor health in later adulthood, well-established in prior research, differs across distinct historical contexts in the U.S. We further examine whether socioeconomic status explains this shift in the impact of childbearing timing and poor health and whether there are additional differences across racial groups. To address these questions, we pooled data from two nationally representative longitudinal surveys: the National Longitudinal Surveys’ Mature Women (born 1922–1937) and Youth 1979 (born 1957–1964). Together, these NLS cohorts include women who entered adolescence before and after the major economic, political, and demographic changes in the latter half of the twentieth century that gave women access to socioeconomic structures previously limited to White men. These data thus provide a unique opportunity to test cohort and racial differences. Overall, findings suggest that the negative association of young childbearing, which included adolescent childbearing and childbearing in early 20s, with midlife health grew across the two cohorts, with this largely explained by differences in adult educational attainment. This cohort shift appeared especially large for White women compared to Black women. This study highlights the importance of sociopolitical context in shaping the health consequences of major life events like childbearing. |
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Wolfe, Joseph D., Mieke Thomeer and Rin Reczek. "Age at First Birth and Women's Midlife Health: Cohort and Race Differences Across the 20th Century." Social Science & Medicine Volume 331 (August 2023).
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