Remarriage After Divorce and Health in Later Life: Findings From CHARLS in China

Remarriage after divorce and depression risk.

As marriage is associated with lower depression rates compared with being single in men, we aimed to examine if remarriage compared with remaining divorced is also associated with a reduced depression risk. Swedish register data were used to define a cohort of men who were born between 1952 and 1956 and underwent a compulsory military conscription assessment in adolescence. This study populatio...

Divorce and remarriage in rural Malawi

The demographic study of nuptiality in African countries is not very developed and often of secondary interest in a discussion of the proximate determinants of fertility. This paper uses unusual marriage history data to examine divorce and remarriage in rural Malawi. Life table probabilities of divorce range from 40 to 65 percent and are among the highest on the continent. An investigation into...

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...

Grandparents caring for grandchildren in China and Korea: findings from CHARLS and KLoSA.

OBJECTIVES To provide an overview of the prevalence and profiles of grandparents providing childcare to grandchildren in 2 East Asian countries, China and South Korea, characterized by similar demographic developments and a shared cultural background but having very different contemporary institutional and socioeconomic circumstances. METHOD We apply logistic models to analyze pilot data from...

Parting: The Aftermath of Separation and Divorce / Recycling the Family: Remarriage after Divorce