More Evidence for Trends in the Intergenerational Transmission of Divorce: A Completed Cohort Approach Using Data From the General Social Survey |
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Authors: | Nicholas H Wolfinger |
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Institution: | Department of Family and Consumer Studies, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112-0080, USA. Nick.Wolfinger@fcs.utah.edu |
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Abstract: | Many studies have demonstrated that the children of divorce are disproportionately likely to end their own marriages. In previous
work, I showed that the transmission of divorce between generations weakened substantially for General Social Survey (GSS)
respondents interviewed between 1973 and 1996 (Wolfinger 1999); Li and Wu (2006, 2008) contended that my finding is a methodological artifact of the GSS’s lack of marriage duration data. This article presents
a completed-cohort approach to studying divorce using the GSS. The results confirm a decline in the probability of divorce
transmission that cannot be explained by the right-censoring bias alleged by Li and Wu. This finding contributes to an ongoing
debate about trends in the negative consequences of parental divorce, as well as demonstrating a useful approach to right-censored
phenomena when event history data are not available. |
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