Entry or exit? A transition-probability approach to explaining the high prevalence of single motherhood among black women

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ID10968554
AuthorsM S Rendall (0000-0001-8541-1033, Department of Sociology and Population Research Institute, Oswald Tower, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802-6211, corresponding author)
Year1999
Volume36
Issue3
Pages369-376
Publication date1999-08-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueDemography (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0070-3370 • E-ISSN: 1533-7790
PublisherDuke University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2307/2648059
PMID10472500
OpenAlexW2076162455
LanguageEN
Citations received8
References cited10

I analyze the prevalence of single motherhood among black and non-Hispanic white women in terms of differences in entry and exit. Higher initial entry rates among black women, especially through unpartnered childbearing, account for slightly more than half the difference between blacks and whites in the prevalence of single motherhood. The remainder of the difference is due to black single mothers’ much lower rates of exit through union formation and to their very high rates of reentry through dissolution of these later unions. Entry and exit rates through the 1990s imply a widening racial gap

Black male · Black women · Demographic economics · Economics · Ethnic group · Family planning · National Survey of Family Growth · Population · Racial differences · Reentry · Research methodology · Significant difference · Sociology · Demography · Family Dynamics and Relationships · Gender Studies · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics · Medicine · Work-Family Balance Challenges

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