Twins or two single children
Based on Swedish register data, we compared the influence of a twin birth on the divorce risk with the influence of the sequential birth of two single children. The divorce risk for a woman with a very young child was lower than the risk for women without children or women with children older than 3...
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| description | Based on Swedish register data, we compared the influence of a twin birth on the divorce risk with the influence of the sequential birth of two single children. The divorce risk for a woman with a very young child was lower than the risk for women without children or women with children older than 3.5 years. This behaviour was essentially independent of the number of children and whether or not the woman gave birth to twins. The effect of parity was much smaller than the effect of child age. The influence of twins on the divorce risk appeared to fall between that of a first and a second singleton. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-73c6de9a7a5940429d5f3190148b5ef02022-12-21T19:52:43ZengMax Planck Institute for Demographic ResearchDemographic Research1435-98712002-08-0179Twins or two single childrenBased on Swedish register data, we compared the influence of a twin birth on the divorce risk with the influence of the sequential birth of two single children. The divorce risk for a woman with a very young child was lower than the risk for women without children or women with children older than 3.5 years. This behaviour was essentially independent of the number of children and whether or not the woman gave birth to twins. The effect of parity was much smaller than the effect of child age. The influence of twins on the divorce risk appeared to fall between that of a first and a second singleton.http://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol7/9/birth intervaldata analysisdivorceevent history analysisparitySweden |
| spellingShingle | Twins or two single children Demographic Research birth interval data analysis divorce event history analysis parity Sweden |
| title | Twins or two single children |
| title_full | Twins or two single children |
| title_fullStr | Twins or two single children |
| title_full_unstemmed | Twins or two single children |
| title_short | Twins or two single children |
| title_sort | twins or two single children |
| topic | birth interval data analysis divorce event history analysis parity Sweden |
| url | http://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol7/9/ |