Midpregnancy Marriage and Divorce: Why the Death of Shotgun Marriage Has Been Greatly Exaggerated.

Conventional wisdom holds that births following the colloquially termed "shotgun marriage"-that is, births to parents who married between conception and the birth-are nearing obsolescence. To investigate trends in shotgun marriage, we matched North Carolina administrative data on nearly 800,000 firs...

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Publicado en:	Demography (Springer Nature) Vol. 53; no. 6; pp. 1693 - 1716
Autores principales:	Gibson-Davis, Christina, Ananat, Elizabeth, Gassman-Pines, Anna, Gibson-Davis, Christina M, Ananat, Elizabeth O
Formato:	journal article
Publicado:	Springer Nature Dec2016
Materias:	North Carolina Marriage Divorce Birth rate Pregnancy Black people Families White people Socioeconomic factors Conception At-risk people
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