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How premarital children and childbearing in current marriage influence divorce of Swedish women in their first marriages

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  • Guiping Liu

    (Max-Planck-Institut für Demografische Forschung)

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By using a Swedish register data set and applying hazard models with unobserved heterogeneity, this study demonstrates that the partners' childbearing history plays an important role in predicting the divorce risks of families with various combination of premarital children. Families with premarital children definitely have a higher risk of divorce than do those without premarital children. Producing a common child reduces the divorce risk, but as the youngest common child gets older, his or her role in maintaining family bond weakens. Families which the wife has premarital children by another man decidedly have a higher risk of divorce than do families with other combinations of premarital children. Other findings deviate from what has been reported in the literature.

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  • Guiping Liu, 2002. "How premarital children and childbearing in current marriage influence divorce of Swedish women in their first marriages," Demographic Research, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany, vol. 7(10), pages 389-406.
    • Handle: RePEc:dem:demres:v:7:y:2002:i:10
    DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2002.7.10
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    1. Guiping Liu, 2002. "Divorce risks of Swedish women in first marriages: two cohorts born in 1950 and 1960," MPIDR Working Papers WP-2002-012, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany.
    2. Guiping Liu, 2002. "How premarital children and childbearing in the current marriage influence family stability," MPIDR Working Papers WP-2002-016, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany.
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    Keywords

    Sweden; stepfamily; divorce risk; common childbearing; premarital children;
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    • J1 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics
    • Z0 - Other Special Topics - - General

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