Sassler
Biographic Data
| ID | 16287 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sassler |
| FAMILY NAME | Sassler |
| SIGNATURE | SASSLER |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cornell University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5287-8398 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 67 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1159 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 67 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 18 |
Narrowing the Gender Wage Gap Among Computer Science Professionals: What Differentiates the Earnings of Asian and White Workers
Increasing women’s representation in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) is often seen as a way to reduce the gender wage gap. Asians are overrepresented in STEM, and previous studies found a smaller gender wage gap among Asians compared with Whites, but this research overlooked ethnic heterogeneity among Asians. This study uses 2009–2022 American Community Survey (ACS) data to examine gender differences in income for compute…
Assessing the deinstitutionalization of marriage thesis: Changes in the meaning of cohabitation over the relationship life course
Objective We assess Cherlin's deinstitutionalization of marriage thesis by examining the meaning couples ascribe to their cohabiting unions, how this differs between partners and by social class, and over the relationship life course. Background Cohabitation is often portrayed as a precursor to marriage. Declining shares of cohabitations that transition into marriage challenge this presumption. Method Data are from in‐depth interviews conducted w…
Finding a job: An intersectional analysis of search strategies and outcomes among U.S. STEM graduates
State-Level Abortion Policy Hostility and Unplanned Births in the Pre- Dobbs Era
An increasingly hostile policy climate has reshaped abortion access in the United States. Recent literature has studied the effects of restrictive abortion policies on reproductive health outcomes. This study is the first to investigate the association between state-level abortion policy hostility and the pregnancy intentions of women with a pregnancy resulting in live birth. Data are from the Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System survey, m…
Cohort Differences in Occupational Retention among Computer Science Degree Holders: Reassessing the Role of Family
Although women's representation in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) employment has increased significantly over the past few decades, their presence remains low in fields like computer science. Using the National Science Foundation's Scientists and Engineers Statistical Data System (SESTAT), this paper assesses the factors shaping employment in STEM and non-STEM occupations among men and women with bachelor's degrees in co…
Creating Our Gendered Selves—College Experiences, Work and Family Plans, Gender Ideologies, and Desired Work Amenities Among STEM Graduates
Studies often cite climate issues in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) employment to explain the lack of diversity by gender and race. Yet, little research directly attends to gender and racial differences in the college experiences, expected family roles, and ideological beliefs about gender that create the racialized "gendered selves" graduates bring to STEM occupations. We examine the experiences and beliefs of graduatin…
Opting out of Marriage? Factors Predicting Non-Marriage by Midlife across Race, Ethnicity, and Gender
Over the last few decades, a growing proportion of Americans have never married. Factors contributing to adolescent expectations for marriage and the likelihood of non-marriage by midlife, however, remain understudied. We explore attitudinal and economic factors associated with non-marriage among a sample of White, Black, and Hispanic men and women in their early 30s through early 40s. Data are from Waves I, II, IV, and V of Add Health ( n = 7,29…
Fatherhood and Racial/Ethnic Differences in the Progression of Romantic Relationships
Objective This study examines the influence of fatherhood on the progression of men's romantic relationships. Background High levels of relationship flux have resulted in a partner market increasingly characterized by the presence of children, but little is known about how children influence the progression of men's romantic relationships. Children could reduce the likelihood of marriage and increase chances of cohabitation for single fathers in …
Making Merit Work at the Entrance to the Engineering Workforce: Examining Women’s Experiences and Variations by Race/Ethnicity
Cohabitation and Marriage: Complexity and Diversity in Union-Formation Patterns
Nonmarital cohabitation and marriage are now fundamentally linked, a fact that is routinely reflected in current research on union formation. Unprecedented changes in the timing, duration, and sequencing of intimate co-residential relationships have made the study of traditional marriage far more complex today than in the past. It is now clear that a white, middle-class, American-centric research template has become increasingly anachronistic. In…
The Age of Independence , Revisited: Parents and Interracial Union Formation Across the Life Course
Romantic relationships that cross racial lines have grown since anti-miscegenation laws were deemed unconstitutional. In The Age of Independence, Rosenfeld argued that parental influence over children's mate selection processes had waned. Rosenfeld, however, was not able to test this supposition directly because of his reliance on cross-sectional census data. Using Waves I and III of Add Health for a cohort of individuals from 1994 to 2002, we ex…
Rural–Urban Disparities in Pregnancy Intentions, Births, and Abortions Among US Adolescent and Young Women, 1995–2017
Objectives. To examine rural–suburban–urban disparities in intendedness and resolution of first pregnancies among adolescent and young women (aged 15–19 and 20–24 years) across racial/ethnic backgrounds in the United States. Methods. We used the National Survey of Family Growth and pooled pregnancy files from 2002 through the 2015–2017 surveys. We report baseline rural–suburban–urban disparities in first pregnancy intention and outcomes. We used …
His Career, Her Job, Their Future: Cohabitors' Orientations Toward Paid Work
In this article, we examine the work orientations of service- and middle-class cohabiting couples. Through our in-depth interviews with both partners in 61 couples, we find that middle-class cohabitors often report polarized work orientations-they are generally either the most conventional (privileging men's work or planning for the female partner to become a stay at home mother) or the most egalitarian. The service class, conversely, more often …
Do Marriage and Cohabitation Provide Benefits to Health in Mid-Life? The Role of Childhood Selection Mechanisms and Partnership Characteristics Across Countries
Extensive research has found that marriage provides health benefits to individuals, particularly in the U.S. The rise of cohabitation, however, raises questions about whether simply being in an intimate co-residential partnership conveys the same health benefits as marriage. Here, we use OLS regression to compare differences between partnered and unpartnered, and cohabiting and married individuals with respect to self-rated health in mid-life, an…
Transitions From Sexual Relationships Into Cohabitation and Beyond
Much research on cohabitation has focused on transitions from cohabitation to marriage or dissolution, but less is known about how rapidly women progress into cohabitation, what factors are associated with the tempo to shared living, and whether the timing into cohabitation is associated with subsequent marital transitions. We use data from the 2006–2013 National Survey of Family Growth to answer these questions among women whose most recent sexu…
Families in the 21st Century
Stalled for Whom? Change in the Division of Particular Housework Tasks and Their Consequences for Middle- to Low-Income Couples
Whether the gender revolution has transformed couple behavior across all social classes is the subject of ongoing scholarly debate. The authors explore cohort change in the performance of individual routine and nonroutine housework tasks among middle- to low-income couples as well as their association with several aspects of relationship quality. Data are from the second wave (1992-1994) of the National Survey of Families and Households and the 2…
Cohabitation Nation: Gender, Class, and the Remaking of Relationships
“We have fun and we enjoy each other’s company, so why shouldn’t we just move in together?”—Lauren, from Cohabitation Nation Living together is a typical romantic rite of passage in the United States today. In fact, census data shows a 37 percent increase in couples who choose to commit to and live with one another, forgoing marriage. And yet we know very little about this new “normal” in romantic life. When do people decide to move in together, …
A Tale of Two Majors: Explaining the Gender Gap in STEM Employment among Computer Science and Engineering Degree Holders
We examine factors contributing to the gender gap in employment in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) among men and women with bachelor's degrees in computer science and engineering, the two largest and most male-dominated STEM fields. Data come from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Scientists and Engineers Statistical Data System (SESTAT) from 1995 to 2008. Different factors are associated with persistence in STEM jobs amon…
The missing women in STEM? Assessing gender differentials in the factors associated with transition to first jobs
Explaining the Gender Wage Gap in STEM: Does Field Sex Composition Matter
Katherine Michelmore, Sharon Sassler, Explaining the Gender Wage Gap in STEM: Does Field Sex Composition Matter?, RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, Vol. 2, No. 4, A Half Century of Change in the Lives of American Women (August 2016), pp. 194-215
Pathways to a Stable Union? Pregnancy and Childbearing Among Cohabiting and Married Couples
Reexamining the Association of Maternal Age and Marital Status at First Birth With Youth Educational Attainment
We reexamined the association of maternal age and marital status at birth with youth high school completion using data from the Children and Young Adult sample of the 1979 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth and giving attention to multiple age categories and race and ethnic variations. Youth born to older teen mothers were no more likely to graduate from high school than those born to the youngest teen mothers. Although delaying childbirth to …
The Gendered Division of Housework and Couples' Sexual Relationships: A Reexamination
Although contemporary couples increasingly express preferences for egalitarian unions, previous research has suggested that sexual intimacy decreases when routine housework is shared. Yet this research was conducted on data that are decades old. To update this work, the authors compared data from the 2006 Marital and Relationship Survey (MARS) and Wave 2 of the National Survey of Families and Households (NSFH2), collected in 1992-1994. The result…
The Progression of Sexual Relationships
The authors examine factors associated with the advancement or dissolution of newly formed sexual relationships. Data from the 2006-2010 National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG) was used to examine women and men aged 18-39 (n = 2,774) whose most recent sexual relationship began within the 12 months before their interview. Results indicate that newly formed sexual relationships are often transitory. By 12 months, only 23% of respondents remained in…
Cohabitation and Marriage: Complexity and Diversity in Union-Formation Patterns
Nonmarital cohabitation and marriage are now fundamentally linked, a fact that is routinely reflected in current research on union formation. Unprecedented changes in the timing, duration, and sequencing of intimate co-residential relationships have made the study of traditional marriage far more complex today than in the past. It is now clear that a white, middle-class, American-centric research template has become increasingly anachronistic. In…
The Process of Entering into Cohabiting Unions
Over one half of young adults have lived or will live with a partner before marriage. Many studies indicate that the majority of cohabitors plan to marry their partners, yet research examining relationship progression is rare. This article deciphers the processes underlying entrance into informal unions. Data are from 25 open-ended interviews with cohabitors who had lived together for at least 3 months. For many, the relationship progressed rapid…
Partnering Across the Life Course: Sex, Relationships, and Mate Selection
Marital delay, relationship dissolution and churning, and high divorce rates have extended the amount of time individuals in search of romantic relationships spend outside of marital unions. The scope of research on intimate partnering now includes studies of "hooking up," Internet dating, visiting relationships, cohabitation, marriage following childbirth, and serial partnering, as well as more traditional research on transitions into marriage. …
The Effect of Attitudes and Economic Activity on Marriage
We use individual-level prospective data from Waves I and II of the [U.S.] National Survey of Families and Households to examine whether attitudes are responsible for sex and race differences in marriage rates net of economic opportunity. We find that persons expressing positive attitudes about marriage are significantly more likely to marry and favorable assessments of marriage accentuate the positive effects of economic attributes on marriage o…
Revisiting Jane Austen's Theory of Marriage Timing: Changes in Union Formation among American Men in the Late 20th Century
This article examines union entrance among never-married young men, focusing on whether the importance of a man's being economically established to marry has decreased in this new era of cohabitation and working wives. The authors test this assumption by examining marriage and cohabitation as competing risks to see whether the importance of employment has changed between the cohorts of the 1970s and 1990s. Data are from the National Survey of the…
Cohabitation, post-conception unions, and the rise in nonmarital fertility
Creating Stepfamilies: Integrating Children Into the Study of Union Formation
As a result of the growth in out-of-wedlock childbearing and union instability, adults contemplating forming a new union are often already parents. This article examines the role of children in stepfamily formation, both coresident and not, using the 2,594 respondents in the National Survey of Families and Households who were not living with a partner in 1987/1988. We consider children of the respondent and of the partner, which allows us to exam…
National estimates of the rise in serial cohabitation
Cohabiting couples' economic circumstances and union transitions: A Re-Examination Using Multiple Imputation Techniques
Waiting to Be Asked: Gender, Power, and Relationship Progression Among Cohabiting Couples
The majority of young married Americans lived with their spouses before the wedding, and many cohabited with partners they did not wed. Yet little is known about how cohabitating relationships progress or the role gender norms play in this process. This article explores how cohabiting partners negotiate relationship progression, focusing on several stages where couples enact gender. Data are from in-depth interviews with 30 working-class couples …
For Better or For Worse? The Consequences of Marriage and Cohabitation for Single Mothers
This study examines whether the mental and physical health of single mothers benefit from marriage or cohabitation compared to childless women who marry. Results indicate that marrying is associated with similar declines in psychological distress for single mothers and childless women, but only when that marriage endures. Single mothers do not receive the same physical health benefits from entering an enduring marriage, in part because single mot…
Are They Really Mama’s Boys/Daddy’s Girls? The Negotiation of Adulthood upon Returning to the Parental Home
This article explores how living with parents affects the ways emerging adults construct their self‐identity. Data are from in‐depth interviews with 30 young adults who returned to live with their origin family after a period of residential autonomy. Respondents perceive adulthood as a psychological state, attained through a process of assuming responsibility for one’s actions and learning how to interact with other adults (particularly parents) …
Nonmarital Childbearing, Union History, and Women's Health at Midlife
Despite high rates of nonmarital childbearing in the United States, little is known about the health of women who have nonmarital births. We use data from the NLSY79 to examine differences in age 40 self-assessed health between women who had a premarital birth and those whose first birth occurred within marriage. We then differentiate women with a premarital first birth according to their subsequent union histories and estimate the effect of marr…
Stalled for Whom? Change in the Division of Particular Housework Tasks and Their Consequences for Middle- to Low-Income Couples
Whether the gender revolution has transformed couple behavior across all social classes is the subject of ongoing scholarly debate. The authors explore cohort change in the performance of individual routine and nonroutine housework tasks among middle- to low-income couples as well as their association with several aspects of relationship quality. Data are from the second wave (1992-1994) of the National Survey of Families and Households and the 2…
Transitions From Sexual Relationships Into Cohabitation and Beyond
Much research on cohabitation has focused on transitions from cohabitation to marriage or dissolution, but less is known about how rapidly women progress into cohabitation, what factors are associated with the tempo to shared living, and whether the timing into cohabitation is associated with subsequent marital transitions. We use data from the 2006–2013 National Survey of Family Growth to answer these questions among women whose most recent sexu…
The Gendered Division of Housework and Couples' Sexual Relationships: A Reexamination
Although contemporary couples increasingly express preferences for egalitarian unions, previous research has suggested that sexual intimacy decreases when routine housework is shared. Yet this research was conducted on data that are decades old. To update this work, the authors compared data from the 2006 Marital and Relationship Survey (MARS) and Wave 2 of the National Survey of Families and Households (NSFH2), collected in 1992-1994. The result…
How Cohabitors View Childbearing
Over one third of all U.S. births are to unmarried women, many cohabiting with their baby's father. While nonmarital childbearing is concentrated among the less educated, in recent decades, its prevalence has increased among those with a high school degree or some college education. This article explores whether cohabitors with some postsecondary schooling challenge normative views regarding marriage as a prerequisite for childbearing. Data are f…
Pathways to a Stable Union? Pregnancy and Childbearing Among Cohabiting and Married Couples
The Tempo of Sexual Activity and Later Relationship Quality
Rapid sexual involvement may have adverse long-term implications for relationship quality. This study examined the tempo of sexual intimacy and subsequent relationship quality in a sample of married and cohabiting men and women. Data come from the Marital and Relationship Survey, which provides information on nearly 600 low- to moderate-income couples living with minor children. Over one third of respondents became sexually involved within the fi…
Intergenerational Patterns of Union Formation and Relationship Quality
The authors examine whether young adults who experienced their parents' divorce and new relationships have different relationship trajectories than those who spent their childhoods living with biological parents in married-couple families. The analysis is based on longitudinal reports from more than 1,500 children from Wave 1 of the 1987-1988 National Survey of Families and Households who were ages 18 to 34 at Wave 3 (in 2001-2002). The results s…
The missing women in STEM? Assessing gender differentials in the factors associated with transition to first jobs
The Construction of Gender Among Working-Class Cohabiting Couples
Stability and Change in the Division of Labor among Cohabiting Couples: Division of Labor Among Working-Class Couples
Because cohabitors express preferences for egalitarian relationships, it is generally presumed (by researchers and the popular press) that cohabiting couples engage in fairly equitable exchanges of domestic and paid work. This article explores how some cohabiting couples “do gender” through the division of labor—both paid and domestic work. Data are from in-depth interviews with both partners from 30 cohabiting couples (N = 60) who have moderate …
Navigating the “New” Marriage Market: How Attitudes Toward Partner Characteristics Shape Union Formation
Trends in divorce and nonmarital childbearing suggest that the marriage market is increasingly filled with people who have been married and/or have children. This study examines the effect of personal attitudes on entrance into a union with a partner who has been previously married or has children. Using data from two waves of the National Survey of Families and Households, the authors find that men who hold more positive attitudes about marrying…
Planned Parenthood: Fertility Intentions and Experiences Among Cohabiting Couples
Most research on nonmarital births focuses on disadvantaged populations. This study examined the childbearing expectations and experiences of a working-class sample, drawing on in-depth interviews with 30 cohabiting couples. Few couples in the sample were attempting to conceive; most desired to defer parenting. Three responses emerged to how a pregnancy would be resolved. The largest group would be dismayed but would bear the child. A smaller set…
Trade-offs in the Family: Sibling Effects on Daughters’ Activities in 1910
This paper uses the 1910 Census Public Use Sample to examine how the presence and activities of key family members shaped the labor force activity, domestic work, and schooling of working-age daughters. There is no evidence that daughters worked to send their brothers to school; parents practiced a more egalitarian distribution of resources than the literature suggests. Having brothers and sisters in school increased a daughter’s odds of attendin…
Feathering the Nest or Flying the Coop? Ethnic and Gender Differences in Young Adults' Coresidence in 1910
Children's contributions were an important component of the family economy at the turn of the century. This article uses data from the 1910 Census Public Use Sample to disentangle gender and ethnic variations in coresidence with parents. Bivariate results indicate greater coresidence of women; this reverses after controlling for gainful employment and ethnicity. Work outside the home bought freedomfrom parents to a significantly greater degree fo…
Ethnicity, Gender, and Social Mobility in 1910
Women's Marital Timing at the Turn of the Century: Generational and Ethnic Differences
This article utilizes accelerated failure time models to estimate the effect of immigration, generation, and ethnicity on timing of first marriage among women living in the United States in 1910. Although historical research suggests that family need resulted in marital delay, I argue that family strategies for socioeconomic mobility is a more likely explanation. Second-generation women from groups experiencing substantial socioeconomic mobility …
The Effect of Attitudes and Economic Activity on Marriage
We use individual-level prospective data from Waves I and II of the [U.S.] National Survey of Families and Households to examine whether attitudes are responsible for sex and race differences in marriage rates net of economic opportunity. We find that persons expressing positive attitudes about marriage are significantly more likely to marry and favorable assessments of marriage accentuate the positive effects of economic attributes on marriage o…
Learning to Be an 'American Lady: Ethnic Variation in Daughters' Pursuits in the Early 1900s
Studies of acculturation generally assume a similar process for men and women. Historically, the spectrum of young adults' activities was broader for women than for men, including domestic work in the home and labor force participation or school attendance. Using cross-sectional data from the 1910 Census Public Use Sample, this article applies a gendered critique of assimilation theory to explore ethnic differences in daughters' activities. Gener…
Marital Timing and Marital Assimilation Variation and Change among European Americans between 1910 and 1980
Most studies of the intersection of marriage and ethnic assimilation focus on partner choice rather than marital timing as an indicator of immigrant adaptation. Yet whether or when immigrant groups assumed an “American” marriage pattern can shed light on the nature of immigrant adaptation, its pace, and completeness. The authors examine ethnic differences for European Americans in the marriage timing of select birth cohorts from 1850 through 1950…
Cohabitation: An Alternative Form of Family Living
PREFACE 1. Introduction 2. Theoretical Perspectives 3. Data Sources 4. Cohabitation Trends since the 1980s 5. Changing Attitudes Towards Union Relationships 6. The Transition to Cohabitation 7. Childbearing in Cohabitational Relationships 8. The Transition Out of Cohabitation 9. Consequences of Cohabitation 10. The Future of Cohabitation APPENDIX: CENSUS QUESTIONS ON COHABITATION NOTES REFERENCES INDEX
Cohabiting couples' economic circumstances and union transitions: A Re-Examination Using Multiple Imputation Techniques
Revisiting Jane Austen's Theory of Marriage Timing: Changes in Union Formation among American Men in the Late 20th Century
This article examines union entrance among never-married young men, focusing on whether the importance of a man's being economically established to marry has decreased in this new era of cohabitation and working wives. The authors test this assumption by examining marriage and cohabitation as competing risks to see whether the importance of employment has changed between the cohorts of the 1970s and 1990s. Data are from the National Survey of the…
The Process of Entering into Cohabiting Unions
Over one half of young adults have lived or will live with a partner before marriage. Many studies indicate that the majority of cohabitors plan to marry their partners, yet research examining relationship progression is rare. This article deciphers the processes underlying entrance into informal unions. Data are from 25 open-ended interviews with cohabitors who had lived together for at least 3 months. For many, the relationship progressed rapid…
The Diffusion of the Influenza Pandemic of 1918 in Hartford, Connecticut
This study uses geographic information systems (GIS) to measure the incidence and track the spread of the influenza pandemic of 1918 in Hartford, Connecticut. The data for the study are based on the death certificates of individuals who lived in Hartford and died from the disease, digitized maps of Hartford for the period circa 1918, and two supplemental random samples of the 1920 U.S. census schedules. The findings suggest that, instead of viewi…
School Participation Among Immigrant Youths: The Case of Segmented Assimilation in the Early 20th Century
Research on the educational enrollment of immigrants has typically asserted that today's immigrant children are educationally disadvantaged and that earlier waves of immigrants were more readily absorbed into the American educational system. This article addresses these assumptions, drawing on traditional assimilationist and status competition approaches to racial and ethnic stratification. Data from the 1920 IPUMS census database are used to ana…
Creating Stepfamilies: Integrating Children Into the Study of Union Formation
As a result of the growth in out-of-wedlock childbearing and union instability, adults contemplating forming a new union are often already parents. This article examines the role of children in stepfamily formation, both coresident and not, using the 2,594 respondents in the National Survey of Families and Households who were not living with a partner in 1987/1988. We consider children of the respondent and of the partner, which allows us to exam…
Growing up with single mothers: Occupational attainment of daughters in the early 20th century
Cohabitation
The past few decades have brought dramatic changes in the residential arrangements of romantically involved unmarried adults. Indeed, as sexual activity has become uncoupled from marriage, growing numbers of young couples have begun sharing a home and a bed without the legal sanction of marriage. Cohabitation, as this type of living arrangement is commonly known, has become a normative part of the adult life course
Are They Really Mama’s Boys/Daddy’s Girls? The Negotiation of Adulthood upon Returning to the Parental Home
This article explores how living with parents affects the ways emerging adults construct their self‐identity. Data are from in‐depth interviews with 30 young adults who returned to live with their origin family after a period of residential autonomy. Respondents perceive adulthood as a psychological state, attained through a process of assuming responsibility for one’s actions and learning how to interact with other adults (particularly parents) …
Marriage and Cohabitation
For Better or For Worse? The Consequences of Marriage and Cohabitation for Single Mothers
This study examines whether the mental and physical health of single mothers benefit from marriage or cohabitation compared to childless women who marry. Results indicate that marrying is associated with similar declines in psychological distress for single mothers and childless women, but only when that marriage endures. Single mothers do not receive the same physical health benefits from entering an enduring marriage, in part because single mot…
How Cohabitors View Childbearing
Over one third of all U.S. births are to unmarried women, many cohabiting with their baby's father. While nonmarital childbearing is concentrated among the less educated, in recent decades, its prevalence has increased among those with a high school degree or some college education. This article explores whether cohabitors with some postsecondary schooling challenge normative views regarding marriage as a prerequisite for childbearing. Data are f…
Navigating the “New” Marriage Market: How Attitudes Toward Partner Characteristics Shape Union Formation
Trends in divorce and nonmarital childbearing suggest that the marriage market is increasingly filled with people who have been married and/or have children. This study examines the effect of personal attitudes on entrance into a union with a partner who has been previously married or has children. Using data from two waves of the National Survey of Families and Households, the authors find that men who hold more positive attitudes about marrying…
Intergenerational Patterns of Union Formation and Relationship Quality
The authors examine whether young adults who experienced their parents' divorce and new relationships have different relationship trajectories than those who spent their childhoods living with biological parents in married-couple families. The analysis is based on longitudinal reports from more than 1,500 children from Wave 1 of the 1987-1988 National Survey of Families and Households who were ages 18 to 34 at Wave 3 (in 2001-2002). The results s…
Planned Parenthood: Fertility Intentions and Experiences Among Cohabiting Couples
Most research on nonmarital births focuses on disadvantaged populations. This study examined the childbearing expectations and experiences of a working-class sample, drawing on in-depth interviews with 30 cohabiting couples. Few couples in the sample were attempting to conceive; most desired to defer parenting. Three responses emerged to how a pregnancy would be resolved. The largest group would be dismayed but would bear the child. A smaller set…
Stability and Change in the Division of Labor among Cohabiting Couples: Division of Labor Among Working-Class Couples
Because cohabitors express preferences for egalitarian relationships, it is generally presumed (by researchers and the popular press) that cohabiting couples engage in fairly equitable exchanges of domestic and paid work. This article explores how some cohabiting couples “do gender” through the division of labor—both paid and domestic work. Data are from in-depth interviews with both partners from 30 cohabiting couples (N = 60) who have moderate …
National estimates of the rise in serial cohabitation
Sociology (59 works) · Psychology (53 works) · Family Dynamics and Relationships (50 works) · Political science (44 works) · Demography (42 works) · Economics (38 works) · Demographic economics (35 works) · Cohabitation (29 works) · Gender Studies (29 works) · Population (28 works)