Center for Demography and Ecology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 4412 William Sewell Social Sciences Bldg., 1180 Observatory Drive, Madison, WI 53706, United States.
Soc Sci Res. 2012 Nov;41(6):1480-94. doi: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2012.05.012. Epub 2012 May 30.
Data from the 2002 National Survey of Family Growth (N=11,180) are used to examine the intergenerational transmission of nonmarital childbearing for US men and women. Findings suggest that being born to unmarried parents increases the risk of offspring having a nonmarital first birth, net of various confounding characteristics. This intergenerational link appears to particularly operate via parents' breaking up before offspring are age 14 and offspring's young age at first sex. While the link across two generations in nonmarital childbearing is not accounted for by parents' socioeconomic status (measured as fathers' education), several mediating factors vary by socioeconomic background. Gender and race/ethnicity also moderate the intergenerational transmission of nonmarital childbearing. This research sheds light on the prevalence of, and process by which, nonmarital childbearing is repeated across generations, which has important implications for long-term social stratification and inequality.
利用 2002 年全美家庭成长调查（N=11180）的数据，本文考察了美国男性和女性非婚生子女的代际传递。研究结果表明，与父母婚姻状况无关，子女的非婚首次生育风险会随着其父母未婚而增加，这一风险在控制了各种混杂特征后仍然存在。这种代际传递似乎主要通过子女在 14 岁前父母离异以及子女初次发生性行为时年龄较小来实现。虽然两代人之间的非婚生子女传递与父母的社会经济地位（以父亲的教育程度衡量）无关，但几个中介因素因社会经济背景而异。性别和种族/民族也调节了非婚生子女传递的过程。本研究揭示了非婚生子女代际传递的普遍性和过程，这对长期的社会分层和不平等具有重要意义。
