The Effect of Divorce on Child Survival in a Rural Area of Bangladesh
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4269146 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Abbas Bhuiya (0000-0001-9032-8760), Mushtaque Chowdhury |
| Year | 1997 |
| Volume | 51 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 57-61 |
| Publication date | 1997-03-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Population Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0032-4728 • E-ISSN: 1477-4747 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/0032472031000149726 |
| PMID | 11618985 |
| OpenAlex | W2005602646 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 12 |
| References cited | 2 |
The data for this study come from Matlab, a rural area of Bangladesh, where a continuous registration of demographic events has been maintained by the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh since 1966. A total of 11,951 first marriages of Muslims that took place in the area between 1975 and 1987 were followed until the end of 1989, to examine the relationship between parental marriage breakdown and survival of first live-born children. The impact of divorce on survival of children during infancy and childhood was examined, using hazard analysis. Other independent variables included age of mother at birth, and mother's education, year of birth, sex of children, and residence at the time of childbirth. It is shown that the net odds of death among children of divorced mothers in infancy and childhood were respectively 3.2 and 1.4 times higher than those of mothers whose marriages continued. The paper also discussed the possible mechanisms which link divorce and child survival
Child mortality · Child survival · Childbirth · Logistic regression · Odds · Population · Pregnancy · Residence · Rural area · Sociology · Child Nutrition and Water Access · Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences · Demography · Global Maternal and Child Health · Medicine
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| Citations per year | 0.43 |
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| Citation span | 1998 - 2023 (26) |
| Highly cited | No |