Eighteen-year-olds who ascribed greater importance to religion in their lives tended to be less supportive of premarital sex, cohabitation, abortion, divorce, and were more supportive of marriage and traditional gender roles than peers who ascribed less importance to religion in their lives.
Eighteen-year-olds who attended religious services more frequently tended to be less supportive of premarital sex, cohabitation, abortion and divorce, and more supportive of marriage and traditional gender roles than peers who attended religious services less frequently. The strongest relationships appeared to be between religious attendance and less support of premarital sex, cohabitation, and abortion.
Compared with peers whose mothers had not attended religious services frequently, 18-year-olds whose mothers attended religious services frequently before they were born were more likely to have attitudes against premarital sex, cohabitation, abortion, and divorce.
Children who grew up with mothers affiliated with an Evangelical Protestant tradition were most supportive of abstinence-until-marriage, pro-life, and traditional gender role values. Children who grew up with mothers affiliated with the Catholic tradition were less pro-life than peers of mothers who affiliated with an Evangelical Protestant tradition but were more pro-life other peers.
Urban single mothers who reported having high levels of support from the fathers of their children and no conflict regarding sexual fidelity in their relationships were more likely to marry within a year of having a child out of wedlock than mothers who reported having lower quality relationships with their partners.
Urban single parents who held strong beliefs about marriage – that “it is better for a couple to get married than to just live together” and that “it is better for children if their parents are married” – were more likely to marry within a year of having a child out of wedlock than single parents who expressed less commitment to marriage.
Urban single fathers with earnings greater than $10,000 were more likely to get married within a year of having children out of wedlock than those who earned less than $10,000. This association appeared to be partially explained by single fathers with higher earnings who also held more pro-marriage beliefs and exhibited more supportive behavior toward the mothers of their children.
Young adults whose mothers were unmarried at the time of their birth were less likely to view their non-custodial fathers as a source of support than were peers whose mothers were married at the time of their birth.
Neither socioeconomic standing nor educational attainment was related to the risk of miscarriage in the first trimester.
Compared with women who stayed with the same partners, those who changed partners after one pregnancy were more likely to have a first-trimester miscarriage during a subsequent pregnancy.
Pregnant women who were not married or living with a partner were more likely to have a first-trimester miscarriage than those who were married or living with a partner.
Compared with peers from intact families, adolescent and young-adult women who experienced parental divorce were significantly more likely to give birth out of wedlock.
Compared with peers from other family structures, women who grew up in intact families were less likely to form high-risk marriages, to cohabit before marriage, or to have a premarital birth or conception.
Among a sample of sexually active teens who have had at least two sexual partners, male adolescents living with both biological or adoptive parents were 64% more likely to always use contraception when compared to similar males who did not live with both parents.
Young women that have ever lived with a single, solo parent have a greater risk of having a premarital teen pregnancy then young women that have never lived with a single, solo parent.
In 1995, the percent of adolescents aged 15-19 years that had intercourse before age 15 differed by mother’s age at first birth. 28.4% of girls with mothers that first gave birth before age 20 were sexually active before age 15 compared to 13.5% of girls born to mothers that first gave birth age 20 or over. 29.5% of boys with mothers that first gave birth before age 20 were sexually active before age 15 compared to 16.2% of boys born to mothers that first gave birth age 20 or over.
The probability of giving birth before age 18 for girls with mothers that gave birth before age 20 is .16. The probability of giving birth before age 18 for girls with mothers that gave birth age 20 or older is .05.
In the year 2002, the proportion of never married females aged 15-19 who had ever had sexual intercourse was 56.3% for women whose mother had given birth before age 20, compared to 40.6% for females whose mothers first gave birth at age 20 or older.
In the year 2002, the proportion of never married males aged 15-19 who had ever had sexual intercourse was 55.6% for men whose mother had given birth before age 20, compared to 42.2% for males whose mothers first gave birth at age 20 or older.
In this study, women who had more experienced transitions in their living arrangements during childhood and adolescence were more likely to become pregnant out of wedlock. This effect was significant regardless of race, ethnicity, parental education, and the age of the adolescent.
In this study, women who had more experienced transitions in their living arrangements during childhood and adolescence were more likely to become pregnant out of wedlock. This effect was significant regardless of race, ethnicity, parental education, and the age of the adolescent.
Those respondents whose parents only divorced were more likely to cohabit with their partner before marriage, whereas respondents whose parents divorced and remarried were most likely to experience premarital conceptions.
Those respondents whose parents only divorced were more likely to cohabit with their partner before marriage, whereas respondents whose parents divorced and remarried were most likely to experience premarital conceptions.
Fifty-three percent of the rapid decline (a decrease of one-third) in teen pregnancies from 1991-2001 can be attributed to a reduction in youths' sexual activity, while 47 percent can be attributed to adolescents' more effective use of contraceptives.
Fifty-three percent of the rapid decline (a decrease of one-third) in teen pregnancies from 1991-2001 can be attributed to a reduction in youths' sexual activity, while 47 percent can be attributed to adolescents' more effective use of contraceptives.
A husband's familistic beliefs, including belief in the value of marriage and childbearing, belief in the importance of adult children caring for elderly parents, greater concern about divorce that involves couples with children and gender-role traditionalism, are significantly associated with a wife’s report of happiness with the understanding she receives from her husband.
