Bhuiya A, Chowdhury M
Popul Stud (Camb). 1997 Mar;51(1):57-61. doi: 10.1080/0032472031000149726.
The data for this study come from Matlab, a rural area of Bangladesh, where a continuous registration of demographic events has been maintained by the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh since 1966. A total of 11,951 first marriages of Muslims that took place in the area between 1975 and 1987 were followed until the end of 1989, to examine the relationship between parental marriage breakdown and survival of first live-born children. The impact of divorce on survival of children during infancy and childhood was examined, using hazard analysis. Other independent variables included age of mother at birth, and mother's education, year of birth, sex of children, and residence at the time of childbirth. It is shown that the net odds of death among children of divorced mothers in infancy and childhood were respectively 3.2 and 1.4 times higher than those of mothers whose marriages continued. The paper also discussed the possible mechanisms which link divorce and child survival.
本研究的数据来自孟加拉国农村地区马特拉布，自1966年以来，孟加拉国腹泻病研究国际中心一直在持续记录该地区的人口事件。对1975年至1987年期间该地区发生的11951例穆斯林首次婚姻进行跟踪，直至1989年底，以研究父母婚姻破裂与头胎存活子女之间的关系。使用风险分析方法研究了离婚对婴幼儿和儿童期子女存活的影响。其他自变量包括母亲生育时的年龄、母亲的教育程度、出生年份、孩子的性别以及分娩时的居住地。结果显示，离婚母亲的子女在婴幼儿期和儿童期死亡的净几率分别比婚姻持续的母亲的子女高3.2倍和1.4倍。本文还讨论了将离婚与儿童存活联系起来的可能机制。
