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Nuclear families are breaking apart because free agents can’t live together, yet men and women can’t live apart. Despite thirty years of upheaval in family life, marriage remains a priority for Americans. It may not be the number one ingredient in living the good life, but it is number two.
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According to a survey by ... Family Values (1991), 10.
To sociologists, these rankings ... Glenn, “What Does Family Mean?” 36.
The percentage of Americans who say ... Norval D. Glenn, “The News is Bad, But Not Quite as Bad as First Reported: A Correction,” Journal of Marriage & The Family, Vol. 55, no. 1 (February 1993), 243.
The decline in “very happy” marriages ... Glenn, “The Recent Trend,” Journal of Marriage & the Family, 267.
Social scientists say today’s ... Glenn, “The Recent Trend,” Journal of Marriage & the Family, 268–269.
The median age at which women ... U.S. Bureau of the Census, “Marital Status: 1991,” 5.
The proportion of Americans ... Larry L. Bumpass, James A. Sweet, and Andrew Cherlin, “The Role of Cohabitation in Declining Rates of Marriage,” Journal of Marriage & the Family, vol. 53, no. 4 (1991), 916.
The proportion grew from 11 percent ... Bumpass, Sweet, and Cherlin, “Cohabitation,” 914.
People live together before marriage ... Bumpass, Sweet, and Cherlin, “Cohabitation,” 920, 921.
One-fifth of all Swedish ... Constance Sorrentino, “The Changing Family in International Perspective,” Monthly Labor Review (March 1990), 48.
In the United States, only 5 percent ... calculations by the author based on U.S. Bureau of the Census, “Marital Status: 1991,” 7, 71.
Though most cohabitors think ... Bumpass, Sweet, and Cherlin, “Cohabitation,” 920.
Over 1 million Americans divorce ... National Center for Health Statistics, ‘Advance Report of Final Divorce Statistics, 1988,” 7.
Because of so much divorce ... National Center for Health Statistics, ‘Advance Report of Final Marriage Statistics, 1988,” Monthly Vital Statistics Report, vol. 40, no. 4, Supplement (26 August 1991), 14.
The odds of divorce for couples ... Norton and Miller, “Marriage, Divorce, and Remarriage” (1992), 5.
These were exhaustively documented ... Nancy Howell, Demography of the Dobe !Kung (New York: Academic Press, 1979).
Teenage sex is common among ... Ibid., 175.
The proportion of Americans who believe ... Larry Hugick Jennifer Leonard, “Sex in America,” The Gallup Poll Monthly (October 1991), 69.
For the !Kung, there are no formal ... Howell, 227.
While !Kung men and women live ... Ibid., 230.
About half of !Kung marriages end ... Ibid., 238.
The latest projections show ... Norton and Miller, “Marriage, Divorce, and Remarriage,” 5.
Demographers project that about ... Ibid., 7.
Among women divorced in the late ... Kathryn A. London, “Cohabitation, Marriage,” 6.
In 1970, 58 percent of divorced ... Bumpass, Sweet, and Cherlin, “Cohabitation,” 919.
When asked their opinion of men ... The 1990 Virginia Slims Opinion Poll, 54.
Yet two-thirds of men describe ... Roper’s The Public Pulse Research Supplement (February 1992), 2.
Among women who feel resentful ... The 1990 Virginia Slims Opinion Poll, 29–31.
Women are much more likely ... Larry L. Bumpass, “What’s Happening to the Family? Interactions Between Demographic and Institutional Change,” Demography, vol. 27, no. 4 (November 1990), 491.
Those most unhappy with the division ... J. Jill Suitor, “Marital Quality and Satisfaction with the Division of Household Labor Across the Family Life Cycle,” Journal of Marriage & the Family, vol. 53, no. 1 (February 1991), 224.
In the mid-1960s, women spent. . . John P. Robinson, “Who’s Doing the Housework?” American Demographics (December 1988), 28.
In another study of who does ... Myra Marx Ferree, “The Gender Division of Labor in Two-Earner Marriages: Dimensions of Variability and Change,” Journal of Family Issues, vol. 12, no. 2 (June 1991), 169.
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Russell, C. (1993). The Marriage Market. In: The Master Trend. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-6016-0_17
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