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“Diverging destinies” is a term used by Sara McLanahan in her 2004 presidential address to the Population Association of America to describe growing socioeconomic differentials in family behaviors associated with the second demographic transition.
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It is important to note that there is disagreement about not only the concept of a second demographic transition, but also about the idea of diverging destinies being part of the second demographic transition. Noting the role played by highly educated innovators in conventional depictions of family change associated with the second demographic transition, growing socioeconomic differences in family behavior have also been referred to as a “pattern of disadvantage” (e.g., Perelli-Harris et al. 2010; Perelli-Harris and Gerber 2011).
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Raymo, J.M., Iwasawa, M. (2017). “Diverging Destinies”: A Review of the Research. In: Diverging Destinies. SpringerBriefs in Population Studies(). Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-0185-7_1
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