Perspectives on the recent upturn in divorce and remarriage
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Divorce , Remarriage and Child Support ∗
Modern marriage markets display increasing turnover, with less marriage but more divorce and remarriage. As a consequence, a large number of children live in single parent and step parent households. There is substantial evidence that children of divorced parents do not perform as well as comparable children in intact families. However, there is also some evidence that this gap declines with th...
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عنوان ژورنال: Demography
سال: 1973
ISSN: 0070-3370,1533-7790
DOI: 10.2307/2060841