Stability of Marital and Cohabiting Unions Following a First Birth |
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Authors: | Lawrence L Wu Kelly Musick |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Sociology and Center for Advanced Social Science Research, New York University, Puck Building, New York, NY 10012, USA;(2) Department of Policy Analysis and Management, Cornell University, Martha Van Rensselaer Hall, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA |
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Abstract: | In a recent paper, Manning et al. (Popul Res Policy Rev 23:135–139, 2004) examine the stability of marital and cohabiting
unions from the perspective of children and find that children born to cohabiting parents are more likely to experience a
parental separation than children born to married parents. They find, further, that subsequent marriage among cohabiting parents
is associated with increases in the stability of these families, particularly among whites. We rely on the same data, the
1995 National Survey of Family Growth, to extend their findings. Our empirical results complement Manning et al.’s by modeling
four distinct trajectories of cohabitation and marriage around the time of the first birth and by comparing the dissolution
risks associated with each. We focus particular attention on the stability of cohabiting couples who marry before a first
birth and those who marry after a first birth. For these couples, we find that the ordering of cohabitation, marriage, and
childbirth is not associated with union stability, and we interpret this to suggest that many cohabiting couples jointly plan
marriage and childbirth.
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Keywords: | Cohabitation Childbearing Marriage Union dissolution Union stability |
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