Comparing the Childrearing Lifetimes of Britain's Divorce-Revolution Men and Women

Michael S. Rendall (), Heather Joshi, Jeungil Oh and Georgia Verropoulou
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Michael S. Rendall: The Pennsylvania State University
Heather Joshi: University of London
Jeungil Oh: Cornell University
Georgia Verropoulou: University of London

European Journal of Population, 2001, vol. 17, issue 4, No 4, 365-388

Abstract: Abstract British men and women who became parents in the 1960s and 1970s were about to experience a new regime of marital instability. The effect of this on the balance between men's and women's contributions to childrearing is potentially very large. This study estimates the co-residential foundations of the new gender balance, focusing on the measurement of lifetime number of years of living with dependent-aged children. A variant of the family-status life table is used to combine two data sources: census panel observations of family status across three points ten years apart, and survey data on the years between censuses. One-quarter of women who became parents in the 1960s, and one-third of women who became parents in the 1970s, have been or will be a lone mother at some point. Lone parenthood is the main way in which women's childrearing lifetimes differ from men's, with seven and eight years respectively of lone motherhood per ever-lone-mother of the 1960s and 1970s parenting cohorts. Men's lone-father years and greater numbers of years spent in second families together provide an average of two years offset against women's lone mother years.

Keywords: British family change; childrearing; divorce; gender inequality; life-course simulation; lone motherhood (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2001
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