Volume 23 - Article 13 | Pages 365–398
Age, relationship status, and the planning status of births
Date received: | 19 Mar 2009 |
Date published: | 13 Aug 2010 |
Word count: | 7997 |
Keywords: | cohabitation, fertility intentions, fertility plans, fertility timing, marriage, nonmarital fertility |
DOI: | 10.4054/DemRes.2010.23.13 |
Abstract
In the United States historically, births to older mothers have been more likely to be planned than births to younger mothers, and births to unmarried women have been less likely to be planned than births to married women. As the average age of mothers has increased and more births have occurred outside of marriage in the United States, the intersection of these trends may have weakened the traditional linkage between age and birth planning status. In this article, we examine differences by maternal age in planning status of births using The 2002 National Survey of Family Growth. We find that age is strongly associated with planning status, but the association is reduced in magnitude when controlling for relationship status and is stronger for first and second births than for higher-parity births. Further, the association between union status and the planning status of births varies by race-ethnicity.
Author's Affiliation
Sarah R. Hayford - Ohio State University, United States of America
Karen Guzzo - Bowling Green State University, United States of America
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