Premarital Characteristics, Selection into Marriage, and African American Marital Disruption.
African Americans have long experienced high marital disruption rates relative to other groups in the United States. Attempts to explain those differences using economic and demographic factors have met with limited success. Using longitudinal data from two waves of the National Survey of Families...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Comparative Family Studies Vol. 37; no. 3; pp. 361 - 381 |
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Journal of Comparative Family Studies
Summer 2006
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