Choi Kate H, Tienda Marta
University of Western Ontario, Canada.
Princeton University, NJ, USA.
Soc Sci Res. 2017 Feb;62:305-316. doi: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2016.08.014. Epub 2016 Aug 27.
Owing to secular increases in divorce rates, remarriage has become a prevalent feature of American family life; yet, research about mate selection behavior in higher order marriages remains limited. Using log-linear methods to recent data from the 2008-2014 American Community Survey, we compare racial and ethnic sorting behavior in first and subsequent marriages. The two most frequently crossed boundaries - those involving White-Asian and White-Hispanic couples - are more permeable in remarriages than in first marriages. Boundaries that are crossed with less frequency - those between minority groups and the White-Black boundary-are less permeable in remarriages than in first marriages. Collectively, these findings suggest that racial and ethnic sorting processes in remarriage may reify existing social distances between pan-ethnic groups. Racial and ethnic variations in how the relative permeability of boundary changes between first and higher-order marriages underscore the importance of considering a broad array of interracial pairings when assessing the ways in which changes in family structure and marital sorting behavior promote integration.
由于离婚率长期上升，再婚已成为美国家庭生活的一个普遍特征；然而，关于高阶婚姻中择偶行为的研究仍然有限。我们使用对数线性方法分析2008 - 2014年美国社区调查的最新数据，比较初婚和再婚中的种族和族裔分类行为。两个最常跨越的界限——涉及白人 - 亚裔和白人 - 西班牙裔夫妇的界限——在再婚中比在初婚中更具渗透性。较少跨越的界限——少数群体之间以及白人 - 黑人界限——在再婚中比在初婚中渗透性更低。总体而言，这些发现表明再婚中的种族和族裔分类过程可能会强化泛族裔群体之间现有的社会距离。初婚和高阶婚姻之间边界相对渗透性变化方式的种族和族裔差异，凸显了在评估家庭结构变化和婚姻分类行为促进融合的方式时考虑广泛的跨种族配对的重要性。
