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Considering Divorce: An Expansion of Becker's Theory of Marital Instability
Joan Huber,Glenna Spitze +1 more
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Findings imply that the husband's earnings and the presence of children may deter divorce less now than they have in the past.Abstract:
Using a national probability sample (N = 1,360) of husbands and wives married to one another in 1978, we explore the correlates of thinking about divorce in order to extend Becker's theory of marital instability by adding sociological variables and measuring individual utilities. Wive's thoughts of divorce increase with their work experience, having a youngest child aged 6-11, and egalitarian housework attitudes and decrease with age at marriage,marital duration, and husband's housework contribution.Husbands' thoughts of divorce increase with wife's work experience and wife's egalitarian housework attitudes and decrease with the presence of children under 6,marital duration, and age differences. To the extent that thought of divorce relates to eventual divorce, these findings imply that the husband's earnings and the presence of children may deter divorce less now than they have in the past.read more
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The Ties That Bind: Principles of Cohesion in Cohabitation and Marriage
Julie Brines,Kara Joyner +1 more
TL;DR: The authors found that married couples who adopt a more specialized division of labor are less likely to divorce, but the effect is modest, while the female cohabitor earns more than her partner.
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Children and Marital Disruption
Linda J. Waite,Lee A. Lillard +1 more
TL;DR: This article examined the effect of children on marital stability, using data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, and tested the propositions that children enhance marital stability and younger children increase stability more than older children, and under some circumstances children have no stabilizing effect or even increase chances that their parents' marriage will end.
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Women's Employment and Family Relations: A Review.
TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of women's employment on families are reviewed for the past decade and several issues relating to the interaction of husbands and wives jobs are reviewed, including the division of housework and its relation to power and equity.
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Women's Economic Independence and the Probability of Divorce A Review and Reexamination
TL;DR: This paper found that measures of marital commitment and satisfaction are better predictors of marital dissolution than measures of economic independence, which strongly suggests that the independence effect found in prior research, which did not include controls for marital quality, may have been measuring the role of wives' economic independence in exiting bad marriages, not in exiting all marriages.
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Do Gender Role Attitudes Matter? Family Formation and Dissolution Among Traditional and Egalitarian Men and Women
TL;DR: The effect of gender role attitudes on family formation and dissolution was analyzed using data from the 1987/1988 and 1992/1994 waves of the National Survey of Families and House-holds as discussed by the authors.
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A Theory of Marriage: Part II
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Differentials in Marital Instability: 1970
Larry L. Bumpass,James A. Sweet +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, differentials in marital instability are examined for several of the wife's characteristics at first marriage and for the couple's combined age, education and religion, using dummy variable multiple regression to adjust for the effects of differing durations since first marriage.