Previous research has not considered maternal dating as a component of family instability, assuming single mothers who date and those who do not date experience comparable levels of family disruption and transmit similar messages about the acceptability
of nonmarital sex.
This study proposes that the family structures associated with risk — single - mother, step - parent, and cohabiting — influence early sexual debut due to family instability, including shifts in family structure and maternal dating, which can undermine parental control and transmit messages about the acceptability
of nonmarital sex.
This research brief is part of a series exploring the dynamics
of nonmarital parenting.
[jounal] Sbarra, D. A. / 2005 / The emotional sequence
of nonmarital relationship dissolution: Analysis of change and intraindividual variability over time / Personal Relationships 12: 213 ~ 232
The growing trend in multipartnered fertility, along with high rates
of nonmarital births, means that many men are fathering children from multiple women at a distance, 45,46 a trait that is associated with greater externalizing behaviours and poorer health among children.47
Drawing on survey data collected from two statewide cohorts of Texas mothers, CFRP developed a series of research briefs exploring the intersection
of nonmarital childbirth, parental relationships, father involvement, and support.
For women with a high - school diploma and maybe some college, the number is about 30 percent.42 And these women are having children outside of marriage in large numbers; indeed, about half
of nonmarital births are to cohabiting couples.43 The point here is that most women without a college degree continue to experience «love and babies» in their early twenties, just without the benefit of marriage.
Stephanie J. Ventura, «Changing Patterns
of Nonmarital Childbearing in the United States,» National Center for Health Statistics Data Brief No. 18, May 2009, p. 5, Figure 6, at http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/databriefs/db18.pdf (March 28, 2011).
Her recent work includes an NICHD - funded project (with Kristi Williams at The Ohio State University) that examines the consequences
of nonmarital and early fertility for the health of women and their offspring and considers the role that subsequent marriage plays in shaping these outcomes.
The emotional sequelae
of nonmarital relationship dissolution: Analysis of change and intraindividual variability over time.
Chapter One provides general background information on the prevalence
of nonmarital births, the influence of fathers on child outcomes, and how these topics relate to paternity establishment in Texas.
Conversion by gift: When one spouse makes a gift
of nonmarital property to the marriage, the gift is converted to marital property.
This dramatic rise in the number
of nonmarital births is of growing concern because of the precarious economic status of single parents (most often mothers) and children.
This dramatic rise in the number
of nonmarital births is of growing concern because of the precarious economic status of single parents (most often mothers) and their children.
Variations by race of child Compared with whites, African Americans have a higher rate of marital disruption and a substantially higher rate
of nonmarital births.
Stephanie Ventura, Changing Patterns
of Nonmarital Childbearing in the United States, NCHS Data Brief 18 (Hyattsville, Md.: National Center for Health Statistics, 2009)(www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/databriefs/db18.htm [accessed October 2, 2009]-RRB-.
Random samples of both married and unmarried births were selected until preset quotas were reached based on the percentage
of nonmarital births in the city that occurred at that hospital in 1996 or 1997.
The study used data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study to describe patterns of co-parenting over six years following the end
of a nonmarital relationship, to identify individual and interpersonal characteristics associated with better co-parenting, and to examine whether co-parenting is associated with lower behavioral problems among children aged three through nine.
The Pennsylvania Divorce Code establishes the presumption that marital property includes «all property acquired by either party during the marriage [without regard to title], including the increase in value...
of any nonmarital property acquired [prior to marriage or by gift, bequest, devise or descent].»
In the case
of nonmarital births, estimates say that 56 percent of fathers will be living away from their child by his or her third birthday.
Many are still in school (either high school or college); 21 percent
of nonmarital births are to women under age 20.
Barber's studies, which often look at patterns in 40 countries or more, have shown the power of the sex ratio in predicting such things as the rate
of nonmarital births, the practice of polygyny, and even the likelihood that men will grow facial hair.
While also calling for the recognition and support
of nonmarital forms of family, they «honor those for whom marriage is the most meaningful personal ¯ for some, also a deeply spiritual ¯ choice.»
On what grounds can official church teaching continue an absolute prohibition
of all nonmarital sexual relationships?
No book better dissects the issues - beneath - the - issues at these Synods than this brilliant analysis of the sexual revolution, i.e., «the destigmatization and demystification
of nonmarital sex and the reduction of sexual relations in general to a kind of hygienic recreation in which anything goes so long as those involved are consenting adults.»
Not exact matches
Therefore, contemporary increases in the number
of divorces,
nonmarital births and fatherless children are just new wrinkles on perennial problems
of life.
Byrnes complains that, once I had moved us from the playing field
of heterosexual vs. homosexual to that
of marital vs.
nonmarital (where being marital includes being procreative in kind), I did not play the game through to the end and give a larger argument attacking
nonmarital sex.
So rather than focus on the many issues — sex, marriage, infidelity, drugs and alcohol, unemployment,
nonmarital childbirth etc. — the book addresses, I want to explore the idea
of community as a force
of good (and sometimes bad).
Related disparities arose in births out
of marriage and in children living with a single parent — not much change in Belmont, a great change in Fishtown: almost 30 percent
of white births are now
nonmarital, up from just a few percent in 1960.
Both the Perry Preschool Project and later the Abecedarian Project [see Figure 1] reported substantial initial gains in cognitive indicators followed by significant long - term improvements in later school performance, rates
of teenage and
nonmarital births, and employment and earnings.
When assets are divided during divorce, one
of the most important elements is determining whether property is considered marital or
nonmarital.
In support
of his position that he should have received some credit for the premarital value
of the business, Husband argues «the trial judge certainly had no problem in «backing out» the
nonmarital portion
of the wife's retirement savings plan.»
Whereas, however, the family court determined that the entire business had been transmuted into a marital asset, there was no finding that the
nonmarital portion
of Wife's retirement account had been transmuted.
So rather than focus on the many issues — sex, marriage, infidelity, drugs and alcohol, unemployment,
nonmarital childbirth etc. — the book addresses, I want to explore the idea
of community as a force
of good (and sometimes bad).
Predicting the Onset
of Emotional Recovery Following
Nonmarital Relationship Dissolution: Survival Analyses
of Sadness and Anger: Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin Vol 32 (3) Mar 2006, 298 - 312.
On average, single - parent families had only half the income
of two - parent families, and this difference accounted for about half the gap between the two sets
of children in high school dropout and
nonmarital teen birth rates (in regression models that also controlled for race, sex, mother's and father's education, number
of siblings, and residence).31
Similarly, many women who have had a
nonmarital birth eventually marry men who are not the fathers
of their children.
The contribution
of each spouse to the acquisition, enhancement, and production
of income or the improvement
of, or the incurring
of liabilities to, both the marital assets and the
nonmarital assets
of the parties
One study found that in African American families (but not European American families), children who lived with stepfathers were less likely to drop out
of high school or (among daughters) have a
nonmarital birth.41 Similarly, a study
of African Americans living in high - poverty neighborhoods found that girls living with their mothers and stepfathers were less likely than girls living with single mothers to become sexually active or pregnant.
For example, adults who experience parental divorce as a child have lower socioeconomic attainment, an increased risk
of having a
nonmarital birth, weaker bonds with parents, lower psychological well - being, poorer marital quality, and an elevated risk
of seeing their own marriage end in divorce.7 Overall, the evidence is consistent that parental divorce during childhood is linked with a wide range
of problems in adulthood.
Nonmarital births were oversampled relative to marital births in a ratio
of 3 to 1.
Specifically, compared with children who grow up in stable, two - parent families, children born outside marriage reach adulthood with less education, earn less income, have lower occupational status, are more likely to be idle (that is, not employed and not in school), are more likely to have a
nonmarital birth (among daughters), have more troubled marriages, experience higher rates
of divorce, and report more symptoms
of depression.8
Given that rates
of divorce and
nonmarital births have not changed much since the mid-1990s, this figure is probably close to the current figure, and it is nearly identical to the estimate provided by Susan Brown from the 1999 National Survey
of American Families.
This list provides a primer on
nonmarital births, highlighting some
of the essential trends and legal considerations relevant to births that occur outside
of marriage.
The chapter also examines the involvement
of AOP - signing fathers three years after a
nonmarital birth and analyzes the relative impacts
of various paternal risk factors in an effort to understand which characteristics have the most influence on a father's odds
of being uninvolved.
Contribution and reimbursement: In the clear absence
of intent to make a «gift,» contributions from
nonmarital to
nonmarital property, are reimbursable at divorce.
Since the enactment
of Title IV - D
of the Social Security Act in 1975, a wave
of federal legislation has swept through state child support agencies in an effort to simplify the paternity establishment process for
nonmarital births.
Our list
of «5 Things You Should Know about
Nonmarital Births and Paternity Establishment» provides a primer on nonmarital births, highlighting some of the essential trends and legal considerations relevant to births that occur outside of
Nonmarital Births and Paternity Establishment» provides a primer on
nonmarital births, highlighting some of the essential trends and legal considerations relevant to births that occur outside of
nonmarital births, highlighting some
of the essential trends and legal considerations relevant to births that occur outside
of marriage.
The data provide snapshots
of relationships among unmarried Texas parents during pregnancy, shortly after birth, and three years after a
nonmarital birth.
Three years after a
nonmarital birth, the proportion
of AOP - signing fathers who remain accessible and responsible to their children has fallen noticeably in relation to a similar group
of fathers examined shortly after birth.