Long-term impact of divorce on women's earnings across multiple divorce windows: A life course perspective

2015 ◽  
Vol 26 ◽  
pp. 44-59 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher R. Tamborini ◽  
Kenneth A. Couch ◽  
Gayle L. Reznik
Keyword(s):  
Life Course ◽  
Life Course Perspective ◽  
Women's Earnings ◽  
Long Term Impact

scholarly journals The dyad is not enough

2021 ◽  
Vol 58 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Torbjörn Bildtgård ◽  
Marianne Winqvist ◽  
Peter Öberg
Keyword(s):  
Life Course ◽  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Social Dynamics ◽  
Intimate Partner ◽  
Life Course Perspective ◽  
Third Party ◽  
Older Parents ◽  
Biological Children ◽  
Over Time

The increasing prevalence of ageing stepfamilies and the potential of stepchildren to act as a source of support for older parents have increased the interest in long-term intergenerational step relationships. Applying a life-course perspective combined with Simmel’s theorizing on social dynamics, this exploratory study aims to investigate the preconditions for cohesion in long-term intergenerational step relationships. The study is based on interviews with 13 older parents, aged 66–79, who have raised both biological children and stepchildren. Retrospective life-course interviews were used to capture the development of step relationships over time. Interviews were analysed following the principles of analytical induction. The results reveal four central third-party relationships that are important for cohesion in intergenerational step relationships over time, involving: (1) the intimate partner; (2) the non-residential parent; (3) the bridge child; and (4) the stepchild-in-law. The findings have led to the conclusion that if we are to understand the unique conditions for cohesion in long-term intergenerational step relationships, we cannot simply compare biological parent–child dyads with step dyads, because the step relationship is essentially a mediated relationship.

scholarly journals LONG-TERM POVERTY, SPATIAL DISADVANTAGE, AND MULTIPLE EXCLUSIONS IN LATER LIFE: A CASE IN SHANGHAI

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. S382-S382
Author(s):  
Hongmei Tong ◽  
Daniel, W L Lai ◽  
Lun Li
Keyword(s):  
Life Course ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Later Life ◽  
Life Course Perspective ◽  
Hierarchical Regression ◽  
Chinese Adults ◽  
Moderation Analysis ◽  
Basic Services ◽  
Older Chinese

Abstract Objectives: This study aimed to examine the associations among three types of cumulative disadvantages: long term poverty, spatial disadvantage, and multiple exclusions using a Cumulative dis/advantage (CDA) and life course perspective. Method: A sample of 419 Chinese adults aged 60 and older from three communities in Shanghai completed a structured questionnaire. Multiple exclusions were measured by variables related to material resources, housing conditions, social relations, civic activities, basic services, and neighbourhood factors. Hierarchical regression was implemented by SPSS 25 and moderation analysis was performed with the SPSS macro PROCESS from Hayes (2013). Results: 39% of respondents reported that they experienced multiple exclusions and one in five respondents report often or most time living in poverty. Regression analysis indicated that experience long-term poverty and length of living in the same neighbourhood is positively associated with multiple exclusions in later life and these associations are not attenuated by demographics, and health factors. But, moderation analysis showed the length of living in the same neighbourhood has significant moderating effect on the relationship between long term poverty and multiple exclusions, particularly for older adults living in the same neighbourhood for more than 30 years. Discussion: The study findings illustrate the need to consider not only life course risks such as long-term poverty but also spatial disadvantages in addressing multiple social exclusions among older Chinese adults.

The Long-Term Impact of Adolescent Adversity on Health in Middle and Older Adulthood: A Natural Experiment from the Chinese Send-Down Movement

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xin Ye ◽  
Dawei Zhu ◽  
Ping He
Keyword(s):  
Structural Equation ◽  
Natural Experiment ◽  
Structural Equation Models ◽  
Life Course Perspective ◽  
Self Rated Health ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Long Term Impact ◽  
The Life Course ◽  
The Impact

Abstract The 1950s–1970s Chinese send-down movement can be treated as a natural experiment to study the impact of adolescent exposure on subsequent health. This paper used China Family Panel Studies (CFPS) 2010 data to evaluate the long-term impact of the Chinese send-down movement on individuals health later in life. Drawing from the life course perspective, the results from the difference-in-difference model suggested that the send-down experience had a significant impact on worse self-rated health; the pathways from structural equation models showed that subsequent achievements—age of marriage and educational attainment—had mediating effects leading the send-down experience to worse self-rated health and better mental 21health, respectively. Taken together, our results highlight the roles of the send-down experience and post–send-down characteristics in shaping health outcomes later in life.

Parental Death and Mid-adulthood Depressive Symptoms: The Importance of Life Course Stage and Parent’s Gender

2021 ◽  
pp. 002214652110611
Author(s):  
Christina Kamis ◽  
Allison Stolte ◽  
Molly Copeland
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
Life Course ◽  
Parental Death ◽  
Life Course Perspective ◽  
Parental Bereavement ◽  
Adult Health ◽  
Long Term Effects ◽  
Using Data

Traditional theories of grief suggest that individuals experience short-term increases in depressive symptoms following the death of a parent. However, growing evidence indicates that effects of parental bereavement may persist. Situating the short- and long-term effects of parental death within the life course perspective, we assess the combined influence of time since loss and life course stage at bereavement on mental health for maternal and paternal death. Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (N = 11,877) to examine biological parental death from childhood to mid-adulthood, we find that those who experience recent maternal or paternal death have heightened depressive symptoms. Furthermore, those who experience maternal death in childhood or paternal death in young adulthood exhibit long-term consequences for mental health. Our findings underscore the theoretical importance of early life course stages and parent’s gender when determining whether depressive symptoms persist following parental bereavement.

Does youth matter? Long-term effects of youth characteristics on the diversity of partnership trajectories

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jana Jung
Keyword(s):  
Life Course ◽  
Religious Commitment ◽  
Social Resources ◽  
Life Course Perspective ◽  
Structural Factors ◽  
Long Term Effects ◽  
Marriage And Family ◽  
Life Study ◽  
Attitudes Towards Marriage

Previous research has mainly concentrated on the study of certain transitions and the influence of economic and socio-structural factors on partnership status. From a life course perspective, it remains unclear how factors anchored in youth are related to the diversity of partnership biographies. Arguing that individuals act and behave based on prior experiences and resources, I analyse how personal and social resources as well as socio-demographic characteristics influence the turbulence of longitudinal partnership trajectories.Using a longitudinal dataset from the German LifE Study, I examine partnership histories from the ages 16 to 45. The results suggest that in addition to the influence of an individual’s socio-demographic placement (for example, religious commitment and regional living conditions), personal and social resources anchored in youth also have a long-term effect on the diversity of partnership trajectories. This article shows that women are influenced by their attitudes towards marriage and family, while men are influenced by their attitudes towards their careers.<br />Key messages<br /><ul><li>Partnership trajectories are influenced by individual’s socio-structural placement as well as resources in youth.</li><br /><li>Attitudes towards family and career shape future life course and set young women and men on certain paths.</li><br /><li>Positive attitudes towards marriage and family stabilize women’s partnership trajectories.</li><br /><li>Men’s attitudes towards their career opportunities destabilize partnership trajectories.</li></ul>

scholarly journals Commitment Without Marriage

2009 ◽  
Vol 30 (6) ◽  
pp. 738-756 ◽  
Author(s):  
Corinne Reczek ◽  
Sinikka Elliott ◽  
Debra Umberson
Keyword(s):  
Life Course ◽  
Life Course Perspective ◽  
Union Formation ◽  
Committed Relationships ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Same Sex Couples ◽  
Clear Cut ◽  
The Right ◽  
Depth Interviews

The majority of Americans will marry in their lifetimes, and for many, marriage symbolizes the transition into long-term commitment. However, many Americans cannot legally marry. This article analyzes in-depth interviews with gays and lesbians in long-term partnerships to examine union formation and commitment-making histories. Using a life course perspective that emphasizes historical and biographical contexts, the authors examine how couples conceptualize and form committed relationships despite being denied the right to marry. Although previous studies suggest that commitment ceremonies are a way to form same-sex unions, this study finds that because of their unique social, historical, and biographical relationship to marriage and ceremonies, long-term same-sex couples do not follow normative commitment-making trajectories. Instead, relationships can transition more ambiguously to committed formations without marriage, public ceremony, clear-cut act, or decision. Such an understanding of commitment making outside of marriage has implications for theorizing alternative forms of union making.

scholarly journals Elders and transactional relationships in Sierra Leone: rethinking synchronic approaches

Africa ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 90 (4) ◽  
pp. 701-720
Author(s):  
Luisa T. Schneider
Keyword(s):  
Life Course ◽  
Sierra Leone ◽  
Life Histories ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Life Course Perspective ◽  
Specific Point ◽  
Urban Networks ◽  
The Past

AbstractIn Sierra Leone, transactional relationships – so-called agreement relationships – have a life-course dimension. Not only are they employed by young people but they are equally important among elders, and they serve different purposes as people age. Long-term ethnographic research with the elderly uncovers that they remember the past and engage with the present through agreement relationships. The elders’ love and life histories from the 1930s to today form ‘accumulated history’. They reveal a shift from kin-based rural hierarchies, where agreement relationships were carefully concealed, to larger, more dynamic urban networks that are openly held together through such relations. Leaving the former and finding one's feet in the latter become possible through transactional relationships that provide alternatives to fosterage and strategies of fictive or aspirational kin. The case of Sierra Leone invites us to rethink the focus on transactional relationships at a specific point in time for a life-course perspective that reveals the enduring nature of the phenomenon and sheds light on its changing texture in individual biographies, with the potential for capturing large-scale social trajectories within and across countries.

The Effects of Singlehood and Cohabitation on the Transition to Parenthood in the Netherlands

2003 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 291-313 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clara H. Mulder
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Life Course ◽  
Living Arrangements ◽  
Transition To Parenthood ◽  
Long Term Impact

Previous research has shown that singlehood and cohabitation are associated with postponement of parenthood. This study examines whether this association extends to the long term, potentially leading to a higher likelihood of ultimate childlessness among those with singlehood or cohabitation experience. Results from analyses of retrospective life course data from a sample of people born since 1935 and living in the Netherlands show that experience with nonmarital living arrangements has a long-term impact on the transition to parenthood. This impact is greater for females than for males and is partly caused by the higher likelihood among cohabitors to end their partnerships.

Divorce and Union Dissolution: Reverberations over Three Generations

2003 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 353-368 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ingrid Arnet Connidis
Keyword(s):  
Life Course ◽  
Family Relationships ◽  
Nuclear Family ◽  
Work And Family ◽  
Life Course Perspective ◽  
Relationship Dissolution ◽  
Family Networks ◽  
Three Generations ◽  
Multiple Voices

ABSTRACTHigh divorce rates over the past 40 years have affected multiple generations and have long-term consequences for family relationships. This article applies a life course perspective as it explores the reverberation of relationship dissolution beyond the nuclear family. Qualitative data from a study involving 86 adults from 10 three-generation families illustrate the extensive reach of divorce across time and generations. An intensive analysis of two families reveals six key areas of negotiation following divorce: relationship dissolution itself; balancing work and family obligations; inlaw ties; parent-child ties; sibling ties; and intimate relationships. Multiple voices from three generations demonstrate the complexity of family relationships over time and the reverberation of individual life course transitions throughout family networks. Applying the concept of ambivalence highlights variations among social groups in the ongoing renegotiation of relationships and situations that follows the dissolution of long-term unions.

scholarly journals Improving Outcomes of Transition-Age Youth With Disabilities: A Life Course Perspective

2019 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 18-28
Author(s):  
Karrie A. Shogren ◽  
David Wittenburg
Keyword(s):  
Life Course ◽  
Life Course Perspective ◽  
Employment Policy ◽  
National Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Youth With Disabilities ◽  
Department Of Labor ◽  
Adult World ◽  
Education And Employment ◽  
Disability Employment

This article synthesizes policy and intervention options for youth with disabilities based on recent reports from the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and the Department of Labor Office of Disability Employment Policy. To frame findings from both reports, we utilize a life course approach. This approach is important as youth’s needs for supports change as they age, particularly as they prepare to transition from school to the adult world. Our summary highlights potential challenges and then describes promising education and employment interventions. An important theme is the importance of cross-agency collaboration. There is a particular need for a more cohesive, long-term strategy to address gaps in fragmented services to develop the necessary evidence to enhance the long-term outcomes.

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