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Title: Same-Sex Union Formation During the Transition to Adulthood
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Mernitz, Sara E. Pollitt, Amanda |
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Same-Sex Union Formation During the Transition to Adulthood Presented: Denver CO, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, April 2018 Cohort(s): NLSY97 Publisher: Population Association of America Keyword(s): Cohabitation; Gender; Marriage; Transition, Adulthood Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Romantic unions (i.e., cohabitation and marriage) during the transition to adulthood are critical for young adult development, yet little is known about same-sex unions. Evidence on sexual minority youth suggests that youth commonly form both different- and same-sex relationships but it is unclear if similar patterns occur in romantic unions. We used the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 to identify young adults who formed same-sex unions and predicted timing to entrance into a first union and demographic and socioeconomic predictors of this timing. We found that, among young adults who ever form a same-sex union, women who first enter different-sex unions enter these unions faster than men who first form different-sex unions and women and men who first form same-sex unions. Women who first form same-sex unions were slowest to form unions. Demographic and socioeconomic differences in timing to first union, whether same- or different-sex, were concentrated among men. |
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Bibliography Citation
Mernitz, Sara E. and Amanda Pollitt. "Same-Sex Union Formation During the Transition to Adulthood." Presented: Denver CO, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, April 2018. |