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The Changing Institution of Marriage: Adolescents? Expectations to Cohabit and to Marry
- Source :
- Journal of Marriage and Family. 69:559-575
- Publication Year :
- 2007
- Publisher :
- Wiley, 2007.
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Abstract
- Cohabitation has become part of the pathway toward marriage. Prior work focuses on expectations to marry and has ignored cohabitation. Although most young adults are not replacing marriage with cohabitation, but instead cohabit and then marry, it is important to study adolescents’ joint expectations to cohabit as well as marry. Our analyses draw on recently collected data from the Toledo Adolescent Relationships Study (N = 1,293). We find that adolescents are less certain about their cohabitation than marriage expectations. Dating and sexual experience, traditional values, prosocial activities, and parents influence adolescents’ union formation expectations. The findings from this work suggest that adolescents are including cohabitation as part of their future life trajectories but rarely envision cohabitation as substituting for marriage.
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Poison control
Human factors and ergonomics
social sciences
behavioral disciplines and activities
Suicide prevention
Developmental psychology
Interpersonal relationship
Cohabitation
Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)
Traditional values
Prosocial behavior
Anthropology
Institution
Psychology
Social psychology
Social Sciences (miscellaneous)
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Details
- ISSN :
- 17413737 and 00222445
- Volume :
- 69
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Marriage and Family
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........235ba37fad727195b9a222081e0076b8