Conjugal Trajectories
Relationship Beginnings, Change, and Dissolutions
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Many societies are experiencing substantial change in family forms and structures. For both families and individuals, conjugal trajectories continue to be a core element of life under the pressures of societal conventions, prompting many toward some variety of conjugal relationship. However, a combination of factors, including decreasing marriage and fertility rates and an increase in cohabitation and singlehood, have brought about more variety in conjugal relationships than ever before.
Conjugal Trajectories: Relationship Beginnings, Change, and Dissolutions covers a wide range of topics related to conjugality including the growing rejection of marriage, the impact of education and employment, cultural perceptions of couple-hood, dating and relationship formation, migration and transnational conjugality, peer versus familial pressures, marriage-divorce-marriage trajectories, tradition versus modernity, generational differences, gender identities, divorce status, conjugal violence, aging, and parenthood.
Multidisciplinary in scope and using predominantly qualitative approaches, Conjugal Trajectories: Relationship Beginnings, Change, and Dissolutions focuses upon relevant trajectories to better comprehend the evolving nature of conjugal relationships and its implications for family life moving forward.
Foreword; Ana Josefina Cuevas Hernández and Sampson Lee Blair
- Chapter 1. An Exploratory Study of the Influence of Marital Attitudes and Skin Tone Perception on the Romantic Relationship Quality among African American and Latinx Young Adults; Sarah N. Mitchell, Antoinette M. Landor, and Katharine H. Zeiders
- Chapter 2. Breaking Up is Hard to Do: Investigating Breakup Distress and Sexual Regret in Undergraduates’ Casual and Committed Sexual Relationships; Siri Wilder, Christina L. Scott, and Micaela A. Chavarin
- Chapter 3. Romantic, Confessional and Post-Romantic: The Timeline of Conjugality at a Distance between Mexico and the United States; Javiera Cienfuegos-Illanes
- Chapter 4. Age-Homogamy and Age-Heterogamy in Three Generations of Heterosexual Women and Men in Mexico; Ana Josefina Cuevas Hernández
- Chapter 5. Predictors of Marital Quality: What makes a Happy Marriage in Croatia?; Josip Obradović and Mira Čudina
- Chapter 6. Marriage Formation in Vietnam: Characteristics and Changes; Nguyen Huu Minh and Bui Thu Huong
- Chapter 7. Education, Marriage Cohorts, and Different Pathways to Marriage in East Asian Societies; Shichao Du
- Chapter 8. Life Trajectories and Reproductive Strategies of Costa Rican Households: An Intergenerational Perspective; Natalia Carballo Murillo
- Chapter 9. What Difference Does Marriage Make? Life Course Trajectories and the Transition to Marriage for Gay Men and Lesbians; Aaron Hoy
- Chapter 10. Identifying Predictors of First versus Subsequent Divorce among Divorcing Parents; Joshua J. Turner, Olena Kopystynska, Kay Bradford, Brian J. Higginbotham, and David G. Schramm
- Chapter 11. Unintended Higher-Order Births and Union Stability: Variation by Union Characteristics; J. Bart Stykes and Karen Benjamin Guzzo
- Chapter 12. Dynamism and Changes in the Abia Family Structure and Conjugal Relationship: The Influence of the Nigerian Civil War; Chigozirim Ogubuike, Mofeyisara Oluwatoyin Omobowale, and Olukemi K. Amodu
Ana Josefina Cuevas Hernández is a Family Sociologist and Researcher at the University of Colima, Mexico. Her research interests include the formation of families, diversity, emotions, and gender.
Sampson Lee Blair is a Family Sociologist and Demographer at The State University of New York, Buffalo, USA. His research interests include parent-child relationships, mate selection, marriage, and fertility.