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Comparing the Childrearing Lifetimes of Britain's Divorce-Revolution Men and Women

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  • Michael S. Rendall

    (The Pennsylvania State University)

  • Heather Joshi

    (University of London)

  • Jeungil Oh

    (Cornell University)

  • Georgia Verropoulou

    (University of London)

Abstract

British men and women who became parents in the 1960s and 1970s were about to experience a new regime of marital instability. The effect of this on the balance between men's and women's contributions to childrearing is potentially very large. This study estimates the co-residential foundations of the new gender balance, focusing on the measurement of lifetime number of years of living with dependent-aged children. A variant of the family-status life table is used to combine two data sources: census panel observations of family status across three points ten years apart, and survey data on the years between censuses. One-quarter of women who became parents in the 1960s, and one-third of women who became parents in the 1970s, have been or will be a lone mother at some point. Lone parenthood is the main way in which women's childrearing lifetimes differ from men's, with seven and eight years respectively of lone motherhood per ever-lone-mother of the 1960s and 1970s parenting cohorts. Men's lone-father years and greater numbers of years spent in second families together provide an average of two years offset against women's lone mother years.

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  • Michael S. Rendall & Heather Joshi & Jeungil Oh & Georgia Verropoulou, 2001. "Comparing the Childrearing Lifetimes of Britain's Divorce-Revolution Men and Women," European Journal of Population, Springer;European Association for Population Studies, vol. 17(4), pages 365-388, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:eurpop:v:17:y:2001:i:4:d:10.1023_a:1012555916990
    DOI: 10.1023/A:1012555916990
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