Forsøget viser, at seriel samliv er stigende blandt kvinder i deres unge voksenalder, men dette fænomen har ikke været tilstrækkeligt undersøgt i nyere familieforskning. Ved at analysere data fra National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG) blev det fundet, at kvinder, der lever i serielle samlivsforhold, typisk starter tidligere og har kortere samlivsforhold end dem, der kun har haft ét samliv. De rapporterer også lavere ægteskabelige forventninger og har færre chancer for at gifte sig før 30 år. Desuden har kvinder med flere præmaritale sexpartnere en højere sandsynlighed for at indgå i serielle samlivsforhold.
Titel på undersøgelse:
The relationship context of premarital serial cohabitation.
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Hele abstrakt på originalsprog:
Even though serial cohabitation is on the rise, it has not been integrated into recent family research. We analyze the National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG) cycle 6 to explore the relationship context of serial cohabitation for women throughout emerging adulthood (N = 3397). We provide a relationship context for serial cohabitation by examining the age at first cohabitation, duration of cohabiting unions, marital expectations and transitions, as well as premarital sexual histories. Furthermore, we examine the change in these relationship indicators across women’s birth cohorts. We find that serial cohabitors’ co-residential unions are about the same duration as single-instance cohabiting unions. Serial cohabitors start cohabiting younger, report lower marital expectations than single-instance cohabitors and a smaller proportion marry before age 30. Women who have more premarital sex partners have significantly greater odds of serial cohabiting. These findings indicate that women face increasingly complex relationship trajectories during emerging adulthood.