| Transitions Into and Out of Cohabitation in Later Life. | |
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PMID: 23226875 Owner: NLM Status: Publisher |
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Cohabitation among adults over age 50 is rising rapidly, more than doubling from 1.2 million in 2000 to 2.75 million in 2010. A small literature provides a descriptive portrait of older cohabitors, but no study has investigated transitions into and out of cohabitation during later life. Drawing on demographic and life course perspectives, the authors developed a framework for conceptualizing later life union behaviors. Using data from the 1998 - 2006 Health and Retirement Study, they estimated discrete -time event-history models predicting union formation (i.e., cohabitation or marriage) among older unmarried individuals (N = 3,736) as well as transitions to either marriage or separation among older cohabitors (N = 377). Those who formed a union were as likely to be in a cohabiting relationship as a marriage. Older adult cohabiting unions were quite stable and unlikely to culminate in either marriage or separation. During later life, cohabitation appears to operate as a long-term alternative to marriage. |
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Susan L Brown; Jennifer Roebuck Bulanda; Gary R Lee |
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Type: JOURNAL ARTICLE |
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Title: Journal of marriage and the family Volume: 74 ISSN: 0022-2445 ISO Abbreviation: J Marriage Fam Publication Date: 2012 Aug |
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Created Date: 2012-12-10 Completed Date: - Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 0375376 Medline TA: J Marriage Fam Country: - |
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Languages: ENG Pagination: 774-793 Citation Subset: - |
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Department of Sociology, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH 43403. |
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