Index
Cohabitation and the Evolving Nature of Intimate and Family Relationships
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Publication date: 8 December 2023
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(2023), "Index", Blair, S.L. and Zhang, Y. (Ed.) Cohabitation and the Evolving Nature of Intimate and Family Relationships (Contemporary Perspectives in Family Research, Vol. 24), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 311-318. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1530-353520230000024013
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Copyright © 2024 Sampson Lee Blair and Yongjun Zhang
INDEX
Adultery charges/damages
, 273
African psychology
, 214–215, 219
African/black psychological theory
, 214
Akan
, 271
Alcohol
, 225–226
“Alternative to marriage” scenario
, 187
Analytic strategy
, 14, 39–41, 196
Argentina
, 286
Asante/Ashanti of Ghana
, 271
Aseda
, 273, 275, 277
Ashanti Law and Constitution
, 273
Ashanti Social Survey
, 275
Assets
, 86
Autonomy index
, 291
Average marginal effects (AMEs)
, 72, 92
Average treatment effect (ATE)
, 153–154
Average treatment effect on the controls (ATC)
, 154
Average treatment effect on the treated (ATT)
, 154
Baby Boomers
, 35, 291
Baseline bias
, 148
Becoming
, 106, 109
Behavioral change
, 189
Behavioral incentives
, 191
Biographical planning
, 195
Biological ties
, 133
Birth cohorts
, 38, 296
Births outside of marriage
, 144
Black psychology
, 215
Breadwinner model
, 190
Bride-price/wealth
, 273
Bridewealth payment
, 272
British Cohort Study 1970 (BCS70)
, 149–150
Bundesinstitut für bevölkerungsforschung (bib)
, 192
Butters v Mncora (2012)
, 252
Canada
, 30
Charlton’s study
, 116
Chez Deenu Pty Ltd v Seychelles Breweries Limited (2013)
, 246
Child of the relationship
, 259
Childbearing
, 38, 145
in cohabitation
, 199
country-level differences in context of
, 147–148
data and measures
, 149–155
descriptive results
, 155–156
linkages between parenting contexts and mid-life health
, 145–147
regression results
, 156–159
selection bias
, 148–149
Childrearing practices
, 116
Chile
, 286
Civil Code 2021
, 246, 260
Civil rights movement
, 111
Civil Status Act (1893)
, 239–240
Close relatives
, 245
Clusters
, 195
algorithms
, 41
analysis
, 39
Coercive behavior
, 227
Cohabitation
, 2–5, 33, 61–62, 84, 111–114, 126, 144, 184, 214, 241, 286
age-old practice of
, 270
in colonial Asante
, 273–278
contemporary scene
, 278–281
country-specific expectations
, 191–193
data and methods
, 89–92, 193–196
different types of cohabitation in empirical research
, 190–191
empirical background
, 85–86
empirical results
, 92
ethical consideration
, 99
evolving nature of
, 60–61
experiences
, 35
impact functions for effects of transition into cohabitation on economic worries
, 104
and LGBTQ parenting
, 108
marriage forms in Ghana
, 271–272
minimum duration
, 242
national path dependencies
, 189–190
prevalence of patterns and meaning of
, 187–188
protective functions
, 84
results
, 196–202
second demographic transition
, 188–189
stage model of spread of cohabitation
, 185–187, 197
status
, 13
theoretical assumptions and hypotheses
, 86–89
theoretical background
, 185–193
in United States
, 60
Cohabitators
, 61
Cohabiting unions
, 186
Cohort dynamics in Italy
, 202
Cohort effect
, 296
Common law marriages
, 239–240, 260–262
context of
, 245–246
requirements for valid common law marriage
, 240–243
termination of
, 264
unjust enrichment and dissolution
, 262–263
Common law relationships
, 239–240
Community Police Forum (CPF)
, 217
Comparative social change research
, 195
Constitutional Court
, 240
Constructive trusts
, 251
Continuous Household Survey (ECH)
, 289
Convention on the Elimination of Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)
, 238
Convergence among groups
, 295–296
Coresidential relationships, potential protective aspects of
, 149
Country-level differences in context of childbearing
, 147–148
Country-specific expectations
, 191–193
Court of Appeal
, 240–241, 250, 256
Courts Act
, 249
Cox model
, 41
of cohabitation separation
, 56
of marital separation/divorce
, 56
Cross-national variation
, 147
Cultural beliefs and values
, 216
Cultural change
, 193
Culture
, 193
Customary marriage
, 243, 271, 278
rites
, 272
Dating
, 3
relationships
, 13
Deficit model
, 8
Delayed marriage
, 33
Department of Health (DoH)
, 217
Dependent variable
, 11–12
Descriptive analysis
, 290
Descriptive methods
, 84
Descriptive statistics
, 14–18
Diffusion of cohabitation over time
, 185
Disability
, 109
Disadvantaged families
, 111
Discrimination
, 216
Dissimilarity matrix
, 40
Dissolution
, 262–263
Distribution of key variables
, 69
Distribution of property
, 251, 253–254
Diverse family structures
, 111
Division of household labor
, 58, 61–62
analytic techniques
, 66–68
background
, 58–62
data
, 62–63
effects of
, 59–60
evolving nature of cohabitation
, 60–61
limitations
, 77
measures
, 63–65
methods
, 62–68
results
, 69–74
sample
, 68
Divorce
, 33, 36
on health
, 146
Domestic partnership
, 255
Drug use
, 7–8, 12–13
Economic deprivation in childhood
, 146
Economic insecurity during childhood
, 145
Economic worries
, 88
impact functions for effects of transition into cohabitation on
, 104
Education
, 7, 99
disparities
, 61
Egalitarian ideology
, 59
Emerging adulthood
, 2
union status in
, 4–6
Emotional harm
, 111
Empirical strategy
, 153–155
Empirical studies
, 185
Engaged cohabiters moving fast toward marriage
, 61
Engaged cohabiters moving slow toward marriage
, 61
Entropy
, 40
Episode order
, 195–196
Equity
, 59
Erasto Robert Muhozya v Bibie Ally Mng’ombe (2023)
, 243
Esther & Others v Public Utilities Corporation & Anor (2019)
, 244
Ethnicity
, 109
“Euro-American church wedding” marriage
, 279
Europe
, 184
Ewe
, 271
Expectations
, 123
Exploratory sequence analysis
, 191
Familial reputation
, 221
Family life course
, 30
analytic strategy
, 39–41
background in theory and research
, 31–33
current study
, 34–37
data source and sample
, 37–38
measurement
, 38
method
, 37–41
results
, 41–47
trajectories
, 31
Family trajectories
, 34–35, 188, 191
complexity of
, 36
descriptive statistics for full sample and by type of
, 39
in earlier stages of adult life course
, 41–44
in early adulthood and union dissolution in middle and later life
, 44–47
Family/families
, 117, 126, 286
disruption
, 145
formation
, 111
forms
, 109–110
law marriage
, 241
Fatherhood
, 110, 116
Fixed-effects logit regression models
, 92
Fixed-term employment
, 85
France, cohabitation in
, 199–200
Free unions
, 287–288
Ga-Dangme
, 271
Gay rights
, 111
Gender
, 71, 90, 109
norms
, 62
pay gap
, 87
role attitudes
, 87
General Social Surveys (GSS)
, 31, 37
Generation X
, 291
Generation Z
, 291
Generations and Gender Survey (GGS)
, 150, 194
German economy
, 84
German Socio-economic Panel (GSOEP)
, 84, 89
Germany, cohabitation in
, 200–202
Ghana, marriage forms in
, 271–272
Ghanaian marriage laws
, 278
Golombok Rust Inventory of Marital State (GRIMS)
, 13
Good parent
, 110
Government of Seychelles v Rose & Others (2012)
, 244
Gray divorce
, 33
revolution
, 33
Great Recession
, 84
Grusi
, 271
Guan
, 271
Gurma
, 271
Happiness
, 59
Health
, 146
Heterogeneity
, 144
Heteronormative ideals
, 114
Heteronormativity
, 115–116
Heterosexual parents
, 113
Hierarchical clustering algorithm
, 40
Human capital
, 146
Identities
, 123
crisis
, 129
Impoverishment
, 294
In vitro fertilization (IVF)
, 106
Incongruent engaged cohabiters
, 61
Incongruent nonengaged cohabiters
, 61
“Indirect contribution” to relationship
, 258
Individualization
, 188
Individualized parental identity
, 127–130, 135–136
Infertility
, 110
Initiative for Strategic Litigation in Africa (ISLA)
, 251
Insider status
, 124
Institutionalized unions
, 146
Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)
, 63
Interaction effect
, 88
Internalized norms
, 213
Intersectionality
, 116
Intervention with Microfinance for AIDS and Gender Equity (IMAGE)
, 228
Intimate femicide in cohabitation
, 213
Intimate partner violence (IPV)
, 212, 228
cohort of participants
, 219
data analysis
, 219
data collection procedures
, 218
findings
, 219–224
leaving in face of challenges
, 224–227
method
, 217–219
participants’ self-reflection on
, 220–224
settings
, 217–218
theoretical framework
, 214–217
Intimate relationship
, 84
characteristics
, 13
Islamic marriage processes
, 271
Italy, cohabitation in
, 202
Jealousy
, 2
Job quality
, 62
Joint vacations
, 86
Judith Augustino Simon v William Isaya Mpinga (2020)
, 253
Kiernan model
, 192, 201
Kinship and Marriage Among the Ashanti
, 274
Knowledge creation
, 119
Labor income
, 86
Larue v Hertel & Anor (2017)
, 249
Legal
, 238–240, 270
decisions
, 116
Legalization
impact on parental identity construction
, 136–138
of same-sex marriage
, 125, 137
Legislation
, 241
Lesbian families
, 110
LGBTQ
, 106
cohabitation and LGBTQ parenting
, 108
couples
, 106–107
data collection and analysis
, 123–124
gaps in literature about LGBTQ parenting
, 114–116
identity
, 123
individualized and shared parental identities
, 135–136
impact of legal decisions on
, 106
limitations
, 138–140
literature review
, 108–117
methodological limitations
, 138–139
methodology
, 117–125
parental identity construction
, 107–108, 125–135
parents
, 110
recruitment
, 118–119
researcher positionality
, 124–125
sample description
, 119–123
sample limitations
, 139–140
sample parameters
, 117–118
theoretical underpinnings
, 116–117
Liberal welfare regimes
, 148
Liberalism
, 193
Life course
, 86
approach
, 32
perspective
, 144
theory
, 35
trajectories
, 31–32
Liwonde & Ors. v Kalua & Anor. (2021)
, 242
Logistic regression models
, 14, 18, 39, 41
Mande
, 271
Marginalization
, 216
Marital biography
, 35
Marital privilege
, 263
Marriage
, 61–62, 84, 144–145, 186, 286
bar approach
, 86
by cohabitation
, 243
forms in Ghana
, 271–272
likelihood of
, 146
protection theory
, 147
Marriages Act
, 271–272
Mating of lovers
, 273
Matrilineal system
, 274
Matrimonial property
, 251
Maximum likelihood method
, 291
MAXQDA software
, 219
Mental health of married adults
, 144
MICE package
, 41
Microaggressions
, 116
Mid-life health
, 145–147
Millennials
, 291
Mini-jobs
, 85
Ministry of Social Development and Family of Chile (MIDEPLAN)
, 289
Missing at random (MAR)
, 66
Mistrust
, 2
Modernization theories
, 185
Modernized male breadwinner model
, 191
Mohammedan Marriage
, 272
Mole-Dagbani
, 271
Monnaie v Choppy (2021)
, 258
Motherhood
, 110, 116
Multiple imputation (MI)
, 63, 66–68
Multivariate analysis
, 290
Multivariate results
, 18–19
Nation-specific life course regimes
, 189
National Educational Panel Study (NEPS)
, 194
National Institute of Statistics (INE)
, 289
National Institute of Statistics and Census (INDEC)
, 289
1979 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY79)
, 149
National path dependencies
, 188–190
National Socioeconomic Characterization Survey (CASEN)
, 289
National Survey of Families and Households (NSFH)
, 62–63
Non-engaged cohabiters without marital plans
, 61
Non-marital childbearing
, 186
Nonparents
, 110
Norway, cohabitation in
, 198–199
Nuclear family
, 111
Nuptiality transition
, 301
Objective factors
, 287
“One-mother and one-father” mentality
, 138
Optimal matching analysis (OMA)
, 39–40, 194
Order of events
, 195
Ordinance marriage
, 271–272, 279
Out-of-wedlock fertility
, 192
Outsider status
, 124
Panel data
, 193
Parental identity construction
, 106–108, 116, 125
individualized parental identity
, 127–130
legalization impact on
, 136–138
process
, 125, 130
shared parental identity
, 130–135
Parental support system
, 227
Parenthood
, 33, 111, 145–146
identity and experience
, 116
Parenting
, 107, 109, 130–131, 134
mold
, 108–111
Partner asymmetry
, 12
Partner resources
, 88
Past marital separation
, 8
Path dependency
, 189
analytical framework
, 190
Pensions Fund Act (2005)
, 244–245
Perceptions
effect
, 296
and values
, 296–298
Permanent Household Survey, urban total (EPH-TU)
, 289
Perpetrators
, 226
Physical health of married adults
, 144
Policy measures
, 191
Political ideologies
, 124
Polyamorous family arrangements
, 113
Positionality
, 124
Potential bias
, 148–149
Power
, 59
Pre-marital cohabitation
, 198, 201, 275
Primary caregiver
, 130
Private property
, 86
Privileges
, 111
Probit regressions
, 290
Propensity score approach
, 146
Propensity score matching (PSM)
, 153
Propensity score weighted analysis on midlife self-reported health
Norway
, 179–182
United Kingdom
, 174–178
United States
, 170–173
Property
, 241, 244
Property orders under 2021 Civil Code
, 254–259
Proprietary estoppel
, 251–252
Protocol to African Charter on Human and People’s Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa
, 238
Public policy
, 186
Qualitative constructivism paradigm
, 218
Race
, 109
Racism
, 216
Recruitment
, 118–119
Reflexivity
, 124
Region
, 286, 293
Registration of Customary Marriage and Divorce Act (2007)
, 243
Regression results
, 69–70, 76
Relational deficits
, 8, 20
Relational investment
, 9
Relationships
, 2, 13, 19, 188–189
factors
, 20
happiness
, 58, 63, 71–72
Remarriage
, 37
Researcher positionality
, 124–125
Right to form family
, 239–240
Rights of parties in common law marriage in Seychelles
, 243–246
Roles
, 123
Rural Vhembe District
, 214, 220
Same-sex domestic relationships
, 255
Same-sex parents
, 114–115
Satisfaction
, 59
School systems
, 115
Second Demographic Transition (SDT)
, 60, 184, 286, 288
framework
, 31
theory
, 188–189
Secularization
, 188
Securing rights
, 132
Selection bias
, 148–149
Self-love
, 225
Separation, chance of
, 63–64, 72–74
Sequence analysis
, 31, 34, 39, 41
methodology
, 193–194
Serial cohabitation
, 37
Sexual behavior
, 7–8
Sexual biographies
, 20
Sexual exclusivity
, 2
Sexual history
, 9–10
characteristics
, 13–14
Sexual non-exclusivity
, 2, 19
analytic strategy
, 14
basic contours
, 2
current study
, 10–111
drug use and sexual behavior
, 7–8
measures
, 11–14
methods
, 11–14
participants
, 11
relational perspective on
, 3–4
relationship correlates
, 8–9
results
, 14–19
sexual history and
, 9–10
sociodemographic correlates
, 6–7
and union status in emerging adulthood
, 4–6
Sexual orientation
, 109
Sexual scripting
, 222
Sexuality
, 112
Seychelles
, 238
legislation
, 239
marital privilege
, 263
property orders under 2021 Civil Code
, 254–259
relationships
, 259–260
requirements for valid common law marriage
, 240–243
right to form family
, 239–240
rights of parties in common law marriage in
, 243–246
succession and common law marriages
, 260–262
termination of common law marriage
, 264
unjust enrichment
, 246–254
unjust enrichment and dissolution
, 262–263
Shared parental identity
, 107, 130–136
Signing away rights to child
, 133
Silent Generation
, 291
Social and sexual scripts
, 221–222
Social class
, 109
Social constructionism
, 116
Social constructionist perspective
, 117
Social Democratic welfare regime
, 148
Social norms
, 144
Social scripts of parenthood
, 125
Social Security Act
, 245
Social support
, 223
Sociocultural factors
, 109
Sociodemographic characteristics
, 12
Socioeconomic status in adulthood
, 145
South Africa
, 214, 220
South African demographic health study
, 212
South African Police Service (SAPS)
, 217
Southern Cone
cohabitation in
, 286
conceptual framework and hypotheses
, 287–289
convergence among groups
, 295–296
data source and characteristics
, 289–290
factors
, 306–309
method
, 290–292
perceptions and values
, 296–298
results
, 292–298
Specialization
, 58
Spousal violence
, 8
Stage model of spread of cohabitation
, 185–187
“Standard North American Family” ideal (SNAF)
, 112, 114, 138
Stigma
, 110
Stress-related problems
, 220
Structural factors
, 287
Structural oppression
, 215
Subjective economic worries
, 88
Subjective insecurities and worries
, 87
Substance abuse
, 223
Substance use
, 7–8
Succession
, 260–262
Supreme Court
, 240, 244, 250
Survey weights
, 41
Sustainable Developmental Goals (SDGs)
, 213
Swedish exceptionalism
, 186
Temporary contracts
, 85
Thematic analysis
, 219
Thohoyandou Victim Empowerment Programme (TVEP)
, 217
Toledo Adolescent Relationships Study (TARS)
, 3, 10–11
Toxic gender roles
, 216
Traditional-local model
, 288
Trajter v Minister of Home Affairs and Transport (2013)
, 257
TraMineR package
, 41
Transvaal region
, 218
Ubuntu
, 216, 228
Unemployment rates
, 84
Union disruption
, 37
Union dissolution
, 30
family trajectories in early adulthood and union dissolution in middle and later life
, 44–47
in middle and later life
, 33
Union status in emerging adulthood
, 4–6
Unjust enrichment
, 246–254
Unmarried parents
, 111
Uruguay
, 286
Value changes
, 188
Vhembe District Municipality
, 218
Victims of violence
, 221
Vietnam War
, 111
Violent behavior
, 221
Voices
, 218
Weighted means of model covariates
, 167–169
Weighted regression analysis
, 153
Welfare regimes
, 148
Western conceptualizations of family
, 112
Western family values
, 112
Widowhood
, 36
Women’s health
, 145
Women’s liberation
, 111
Working mothers
, 87
World Marriage Data (WMD)
, 290
World Values Survey (WVS)
, 290, 300
Young women
, 212–213
of color
, 215
- Prelims
- Chapter 1: Individual and Relationship Determinants of Sexual Non-Exclusivity: Comparing Cohabiting, Dating, and Married Emerging Adults
- Chapter 2: Family Life Course Trajectories and Union Dissolution in Middle and Later Life
- Chapter 3: All is Not Fair in Love and Housework: Perceptions of Household Labor and Relationship Attitudes in Cohabitating and Married Couples
- Chapter 4: Protective Function of Cohabitation Against Economic Worries
- Chapter 5: Parental Role Construction Among LGBTQ Parents in the Post-Equality Era
- Chapter 6: Partnered, Cohabiting, or Married: Childbearing and Mothers' Mid-Life Health in the US, UK, and Norway
- Chapter 7: Convergence or Divergence? The Unfolding of Cohabitation in France, Germany, Italy, and Norway
- Chapter 8: Intimate Partner Violence in Cohabiting Relationships: Young Women's Voices from Rural Vhembe District, South Africa
- Chapter 9: Marriage by Cohabitation (Common Law Marriage) in Seychelles: Emerging Issues
- Chapter 10: Defining Cohabitation in the Ghanaian Context: Some Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
- Chapter 11: Cohabitation in the Southern Cone: Recent Evolution, Associated Factors and Convergence
- Index