The DOI matches its Crossref record.
Family Structure and the Risk of a Premarital Birth
Abstract
The authors examine three hypotheses regarding the impact of a womans family characteristics between birth and age 19 on her chances of having a premarital birth. construct dynamic measures of family structure using parent-history data from the [U.S.] National Survey of Families and Households. We use these data to examine the relative importance of family events during childhood changes in family structure during childhood and adolescence and durations spent in the modal family structures experienced by respondents while growing up. Our results suggest that these dynamic measures capture both theoretically and empirically distinct dimensions of family experience and that distinguishing between these dimensions provides sufficient analytical leverage to test the socialization social control and instability and change hypotheses. (EXCERPT)
Overview
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Integrity signals
Registry
Cites
Statistics
Verification
Claims the paper makes
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Self-check
Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.
The self-check needs the paper’s full text.
Citations
Cited by
Applied Longitudinal Data Analysis: Modeling Change and Event Occurrence
Singer, J. D., & Willett, J. B. (2003) · doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195152968.001.0001 · Cited by 10,647
Research on Divorce: Continuing Trends and New Developments
Amato, P. R. (2010) · Journal of Marriage and Family · doi:10.1111/j.1741-3737.2010.00723.x · Cited by 1,918
Ellis (2009) · doi:10.1007/s12110-009-9063-7 · Cited by 1,592
Family relationships and adolescent pregnancy risk: a research synthesis
Miller, B. C., Benson, B., & Galbraith, K. A. (2001) · Developmental Review · doi:10.1006/drev.2000.0513 · Cited by 568
Research on the Role of Classroom Discourse As It Affects Reading Comprehension
Nystrand, M. (2006) · Research in the Teaching of English · doi:10.58680/rte20065107 · Cited by 351
Metadata
- Authors
- Wu, L. L., & Martinson, B. C.
- Venue
- American Sociological Review
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 1993-04
- Volume
- 58
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 210
- ISSN
- 0003-1224 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2048318896
- Cited by
- 481
- References
- 0
- FWCI
- 34.28
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review
How to cite
Cite CoChat for the checks on this page, and the paper for its own findings.
- This page
- CoChat. (2026). Citation check: Family Structure and the Risk of a Premarital Birth. https://app.cochat.ai/papers/10.2307/2095967
- The paper
- Wu, L. L., & Martinson, B. C. (1993). Family Structure and the Risk of a Premarital Birth. American Sociological Review. https://doi.org/10.2307/2095967
Data sources
Bibliographic data: Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, Crossref.
Contains information from the Semantic Scholar Academic Graph Datasets, made available under the ODC Attribution License (ODC-BY 1.0).
Semantic Scholar’s data is described in: Kinney, R., et al. (2023). The Semantic Scholar Open Data Platform. arXiv:2301.10140.
