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Cohen: How to Live in a World Where Marriage Is in Decline
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As marriage rates continue to fall, policies that try to steer people into marriage through financial incentives are only hurting children
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News
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Debating the Future of American Marriage
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Stable marriage increasingly linked to socioeconomic privilege
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News
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Marsh outlines challenges facing African American women
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Marrying a less-educated partner can cost $25,000 per year
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News
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Philip Cohen featured in USA Today on U.S. Divorce Rate
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Millennials are contributing to the declining divorce rate in U.S.
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Sayer, Pepin research challenges single-mother time poverty
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Demography article reports finding that married mothers did more housework and slept less than never-married and divorced mothers, counter to expectations of the time poverty thesis
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Research
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Selected Research
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Philip Cohen comments on American's new marriage trend in NBC News
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Social media adds to the pressure of a perfect marriage
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News
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Kirsten Stoebenau, Behavioral & Community Health
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"Come, we try" - A qualitative study of changing marital practices in low-income settings in Eastern Africa and the implications for maternal and child health
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Coming Up
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Comparing same- and different-sex relationship dynamics: Experiences of young adults in Taiwan
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Background: Few studies of same-sex relationships are able to capture the dynamics of these relationships from formation to dissolution, and even fewer provide evidence on these dynamics in a non-Western context. Objective: Using retrospective relationship history data collected from a nationally representative sample of young adults, this study compares the processes of forming and terminating relationships between same- and different-sex couples in Taiwan, an Asian society featuring both strong parental influences on children’s mate selection and an ongoing legislative effort to legalize same-sex marriage. Results: Results from event history models show that factors associated with relationship formation and dissolution are largely similar for same- and different-sex unions and that same-sex relationships do not have higher dissolution rates. Nevertheless, premarital coresidence with parents, which is likely to amplify parental influences on children’s mate selection, deters the entry into and accelerates the dissolution of same-sex relationships more than it does different-sex relationships. Moreover, same-sex relationships are more heterogamous in family economic background, but more homogamous in age and education level, than different-sex ones. Contribution: This study is among the first to provide evidence on the dynamics of same- and different-sex relationships in a non-Western context. Aside from a few differences between same- and different-sex relationships related to parental influences, our study provides strong evidence that same- and different-sex couples experience intimacies in similar ways – even in a relatively conservative cultural context like Taiwan.
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Retired Persons
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Wei-hsin Yu, Ph.D.
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Wei-hsin Yu Publications
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Cohen sees 'symbolic effect' of same-sex unions on marriage
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Pundits ponder future of marriage as an institution
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News
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Implications of Unstable Trends in Marriage, Birth, and Divorce
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Using birth, marriage, and divorce data from the U.S. Census, this study examines the stability in trends between 1920 and 2008. Our investigation substantiates the reactive nature of family trends to any intervention or change in its environment. We find that changes in family trends, which might have been initiated by changes in policies or other interventions, are permanent and do not fade away by reversing policies or interventions. Hence, family and consumer scientists, policymakers, and practitioners must explicitly allow for unstable trends when researching or targeting the dynamics of birth, marriage, and divorce, and prescribing interventions that they view as stabilizers of family dynamics.
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MPRC People
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Manouchehr (Mitch) Mokhtari, Ph.D.
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Mitch Mokhtari Publications