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Marriage And Cohabitation, Kara Joyner
Marriage And Cohabitation, Kara Joyner
Sociology Faculty Publications
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Fertility Following An Unintended First Birth, Karen Guzzo, Sarah Hayford
Fertility Following An Unintended First Birth, Karen Guzzo, Sarah Hayford
Sociology Faculty Publications
Research on unintended fertility tends to focus on births as isolated events. This article expands previous research by examining the relationship between early unintended childbearing and subsequent fertility dynamics in the United States. Data from the 2002 National Survey of Family Growth show that 27.5% of mothers report an unintended first birth. We use event history methods to show that these women are significantly more likely than women with an intended first birth to have an unintended second birth than to either have no second birth or an intended second birth, net of sociodemographic characteristics. An unintended first birth also …