When Race Makes No Difference: Marriage and the Military.
While retreat from marriage" rates have been on the rise for all Americans, there has been an increasing divergence in family patterns between blacks and whites, with the former experiencing markedly higher divorce, nonmarital childbearing and never-marrying rates. Explanations generally focus on th...
| Published in: | Social Forces (University of North Carolina Press) Vol. 83; no. 2; pp. 731 - 758 |
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Oxford University Press / UK
Dec2004
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