Premarital conceptions, postconception ("shotgun") marriages, and premarital first births
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Premarital conceptions, postconception (“shotgun”) marriages, and premarital first births: Education gradients in U.S. cohorts of white and black women born 1925-1959
BACKGROUND In the U.S. today, premarital first births occur disproportionately to women with low education and income. We lack studies of whether this education gradient was present in cohorts born earlier. OBJECTIVE We examine education differences in the proportion of U.S. white and black women who: (a) experienced a premarital conception taken to term resulting in a first birth, and (b) had ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Demographic Research
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1435-9871
DOI: 10.4054/demres.2012.27.6