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Complex Families: Documenting the Prevalence and Correlates of Multi-Partnered Fertility in the United States


  Author: Marcia Carlson, Frank Furstenberg, Jr.
Publisher: Center for Research on Child Wellbeing
Publication:
Document Date:                  October 2003
Category: Sexuality > Sexual Relations
Related Categories:
Family Structure > Household Characteristics
Family Structure > Marital Status
Family Structure > Parenthood Status
Parenthood/Childrearing > Fertility/Infertility
Sexuality > Promiscuity
 

This report gives an overview of multi-partnered fertility in the United States and finds that maternal age at birth, parental education, and marital and socioeconomic status are all factors associated with the likelihood of women having children with multiple partners.

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