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Book SynopsisMany 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.
Table of ContentsForeword; 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
