Citation
Sevareid, Eric E.; Graham, Katherine; Guzzo, Karen Benjamin; Manning, Wendy D.; & Brown, Susan L. (2023). Have Teens’ Cohabitation, Marriage, and Childbearing Goals Changed Since the Great Recession?. Population Research and Policy Review, 42(87), 1-29.Abstract
The uneven recovery of the post-Great Recession years has been accompanied by changing family behaviors throughout the U.S. For teens, whose family building years are largely still to come, these broader shifts may have infuenced their expectations of cohabitation, marriage, or childbearing in the future. Further, given variation in gender socialization, teen girls and boys may think diferently about their future family behaviors. In this project, we analyzed cohabitation, marriage, and childbearing expectations and intentions among teens ages 15–19 by gender using National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG) data, representing the years 2012–2018. Since the Great Recession, the vast majority of teens continued to expect to marry and intend to have children, with less certainty but growth nonetheless in cohabitation expectations. By 2018, gender diferentials in cohabitation expectations persisted, gender diferences in fertility intentions disappeared, and there were no gender diferences in marital intentions. In general, we found little evidence of a weakening of teens’ expectations and intentions to engage in family formation behaviors in the years since the Great Recession, though it remains to be seen whether teens will actually cohabit, marry, or have children as they move through the life course.URL
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11113-023-09833-8Reference Type
Journal ArticleYear Published
2023Journal Title
Population Research and Policy ReviewAuthor(s)
Sevareid, Eric E.Graham, Katherine
Guzzo, Karen Benjamin
Manning, Wendy D.
Brown, Susan L.
Article Type
RegularData Set/Study
national Survey of Family Growth (NSFG)Continent/Country
United StatesState
NonspecificRace/Ethnicity
BlackHispanic
White