TY  - JOUR
A1  - Liu, Guiping
T1  - How premarital children and childbearing in current marriage influence divorce of Swedish women in their first marriages
Y1  - 2002/08/27
JF  - Demographic Research
JO  - Demographic Research
SN  - 1435-9871
SP  - 389
EP  - 406
DO  - 10.4054/DemRes.2002.7.10
VL  - 7
IS  - 10
UR  - https://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol7/10/
L1  - https://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol7/10/7-10.pdf
L2  - https://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol7/10/7-10.pdf
N2  - By using a Swedish register data set and applying hazard models with unobserved heterogeneity, this study demonstrates that the partners' childbearing history plays an important role in predicting the divorce risks of families with various combination of premarital children. Families with premarital children definitely have a higher risk of divorce than do those without premarital children. Producing a common child reduces the divorce risk, but as the youngest common child gets older, his or her role in maintaining family bond weakens. 

Families which the wife has premarital children by another man decidedly have a higher risk of divorce than do families with other combinations of premarital children. Other findings deviate from what has been reported in the literature.

ER  -