Who Gets Divorced? The Social Determinants of Marital Separation over the Life Course

摘要: As with most developed Western nations marriage dissolution has become a prominent feature in Australian family life over the last several decades. In this chapter data from Negotiating Life Course project is used to examine three key mechanisms through which social and demographic characteristics influence marital separation including factors that operate normative cultural mechanisms, those quality of match, provide barriers dissolution. The shows all these are important for understanding divorce. Men women less likely experience if their such as religiosity, birth cohort, ethnic background, cohabitation before reflect more traditional organization greater commitment institution marriage. Similarly, imply poorer mate selection process young age at or early birth, decrease ability both one spouse negotiate relationships parental divorce, tend increase risk separation. Barriers also men women, children partners’ income reducing likelihood Ongoing changes timing formation women’s economic status course have implications future rates