Bendito Amor: Religion and Relationships among Married and Unmarried Latinos in Urban America

W. Bradford Wilcox and Edwin Hernández
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W. Bradford Wilcox: University of Virginia
Edwin Hernández: University of Notre Dame

No 902, Working Papers from Princeton University, School of Public and International Affairs, Center for Research on Child Wellbeing.

Abstract: The family arrangements of Latinos in the U.S. are increasingly diverse, with growing numbers of Latino children living in households headed by married and unmarried parents. Latinos also tend to be more religious than the population at large. Yet no research has examined the associations between religion and relationship quality among married and unmarried Latinos. Using data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study, which focuses on new parents in urban America, we find that the religious attendance of Latino fathers promotes higher-quality relationships among both fathers and mothers; by contrast, the effect of maternal attendance on relationship quality is insignificant or negative.

Date: 2007-01
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