Used data from Nigeria Fertility Survey of 1981/82 and proportional hazard models to estimate effect of polygyny on stability of first unions. Results indicated that simple dichotomy of polygynous and monogamous unions may be misleading. Two-wife unions were most stable whereas unions with three or more wives were associated with highest rates of…

Investigated divorce-suicide relationship in Finland. Cochrane-Orcutt time series analysis confirms divorce-suicide linkage for Finland. A 1 percent increase in divorce was associated with 0.24 percent increase in male suicide and 0.12 percent increase in female suicide. Given that divorce and religiosity trends were highly correlated, concluded…

Examined temporal dimensions (timing of prior events, historical time, duration dependence, selectivity) and their impact on marital dissolution in multivariate continuous time model using data from June 1985 Current Population Survey. Results indicated that marital stability decreased over time, increased over marital duration, increased with age…

Extends the examination of the relationship between divorce and suicide to Canada by evaluating the hypothesis that provinces with high levels of divorce experience increased rates of suicide. Aggregate data for Canada's provinces and territories for 1971 and 1978 provide strong support for this prediction, thus indicating similarity in patterns…

Examines relevance of region and migration to divorce. Regions of high population mobility have high divorce rates, regions with low migration rates experience low levels of family dissolution. Persisting regional differences in the incidence of family dissolution are independent of relevant social demographic variables. (Author/ABL)

Used data from seven national surveys (N=7,994) for a descriptive study of the relationship of social and demographic variables to marital dissolution. Of the 10 correlates, the strongest were race, age at first marriage, and frequency of attendance of religious services. Socioeconomic variables were relatively weak correlates. (JAC)

Analysis of effect of divorce on suicide using micro- and individual-level data provided some support for both status integration theory (predicting decline in effect of divorce on suicide) and Durkheimian perspective (predicting no change or increase in suicide). Gap between suicide rates of divorced and married, which has narrowed as divorce has…

Examines vocabularies of motives in divorce. Documents indeterminacy and complexity of marital situations from which divorces arose; then documents distinct vocabulary of motives used by divorce initiators and opposing vocabulary of motives used by noninitiators. Presents evidence suggesting that sequential models of divorce in which one stage of…

Explores the linkage of divorce and suicide from 1964 to 1977, controlling for variations in unemployment. Findings demonstrated that, even with controls, the divorce rate explains variations in the suicide rate, suggesting that the kinship system is being greatly altered, which increases the propensity toward suicide. (JAC)

Presents summaries from marital status life tables for Swiss men and women born between 1888 and 1945. Results show the Swiss have followed a general Western trend toward more and earlier marriages and higher levels of divorce. However, in Switzerland, changes were largely ones of degree. (JAC)

In nationally representative sample of children whose parents were divorced, separated, or unmarried, found no evidence that children in shared custody had less conflictual or better relationships with their parents. Children in sole custody gave parents more support than those in shared custody. When parents had high levels of disagreements with…

Examined relationship between childbearing and dissolution of second marriage among 713 white women. Women who gave birth in second marriage had significantly reduced probability of dissolution. Childbearing prior to remarriage was associated with increased risk of dissolution in first five years of remarriage. Other results suggest bringing…

Explored relationship between divorce and suicide in Japan. Time series analysis was unable to substantiate divorce-suicide pattern for Japan. Although research did not offer support for relationship between divorce and suicide which Durkheim predicted, it did corroborate Durkheim's general theory of family integration. (Author/NB)

Presents tabulations for remarried couple households in the June 1980 Current Population Survey. Found that in 20 percent of households maintained by married couples at least one spouse had been divorced; one-sixth of U.S. children under age 18 lived in such households. (NRB)

Tested two hypotheses relative to duration of marriage in 11,559 divorcing families in northern California. Confirmed that the presence of children is associated with longer marriage duration but not that the presence of children younger than age two was associated with longer marital duration. (NRB)