Fraying Families: Demographic Divergence in the Parental Safety Net
This article examines two cohorts aged 25 –49
from the 1988 (n = 7,246) and 2013 (n = 7,014) Panel Study of Income Dynamics Roster and
Transfers Files. In 1988, adults with a college degree had two surviving parents
living together for 1.8 years longer than nongraduates. This disparity increased to
6.8 years in 2013. This five-year increase in disparity was driven predominantly by
higher rates of union dissolution among parents of adults with less education.
Growing differences in paternal mortality also contributed to the rise in
inequality.
Source: Demography - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
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