The influence of remarriage on the racial difference in mother-only families in 1910

Demography

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 283-297

  London, Andrew S ^a   Elman, Cheryl ^b  

^a KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DECISION MAKING; ETHNOLOGY; FAMILY SIZE; HUMAN; MALE; MARRIAGE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTHER; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RISK; SINGLE PARENT; SOCIOECONOMICS; SOCIOLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; THEORETICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MARRIAGE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MOTHERS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ODDS RATIO; SINGLE-PARENT FAMILY; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SOCIOLOGY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0035345427     PISSN: 00703370     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3088306     Document Type: Review

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