Mate Availability and African American Family Structure in the U.S. Nonmetropolitan South,1960-1990  

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Fossett, Mark A. ; Kiecolt, K. Jill ; Cready, Cynthia M.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Marriage and the Family vol. 59 no. 1 (Feb. 1997), page 192-203.
Topik: sex ratio; family structure; African-American; marrriage type; rural residence; mate availibility

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Perpustakaan PKPM Nomor Panggil: J43 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada

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We examine structural determinants of African American marriage and family formation for a sample of metropolitan counties in the U.S. South over three decades. As predicted, higher sex ratios are associated with a higher prevalence of marriage for women, a higher prevalence of husband-wife families, higher percentages of children living in husband-wife families, and higher percentages of marital births. Men's socioeconomic opportunities and status have positive effects on these variable whereas women's socioeconomic opportunities and status, public assistance levels, and community size have negative effects. Finally, mate availability has different effects on the prevalence of marriage for women. and men. Our results show that recent changes in African American family patterns are occurring in non metropolitan and metropolitan settings and that the same structural factors operate in similar ways in both contexts.

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