Uggla Caroline
Åbo Akademi University, Abo, VS, Finland.
Evol Hum Sci. 2025 Feb 18;7:e14. doi: 10.1017/ehs.2025.9. eCollection 2025.
Individuals who experience divorce in childhood are more likely to divorce themselves as adults. Notably, the magnitude of the intergenerational divorce transmission is stronger for groups among whom divorce is rare. This transmission may reflect differences in mating strategies passed from parent to child, or differences in cultural norms between groups. Sociologists and demographers have struggled to disentangle socioeconomic and cultural factors, because groups that are less wealthy also tend to have higher divorce rates. We use data from Finland, where two native ethnolinguistic groups with comparable socioeconomic characteristics - but different divorce risks - live side by side: Swedish-speakers and Finnish-speakers. Using register data on the entire Finnish population ( = 554,337 couples 1987-2020), we examine separation risk as a function of parental divorce. Data suggest that the intergenerational transmission is greater among Swedish-speakers, who have an overall lower separation rate. Group differences in separation risk persist even after controlling for socioeconomic factors and each partner's experience of parental divorce. Notably, Finnish-speaking couples who reside in Swedish-dominated areas have both somewhat separation risk, and intergenerational transmission than their peers in Finnish-dominated areas. These results point to a cultural transmission of separation, beyond strong socioeconomic factors.
童年经历过父母离异的人成年后更有可能自己离婚。值得注意的是，对于离婚罕见的群体而言，代际离婚传递的程度更强。这种传递可能反映了从父母传给子女的择偶策略差异，或者群体之间文化规范的差异。社会学家和人口统计学家一直在努力厘清社会经济和文化因素，因为较不富裕的群体往往也有较高的离婚率。我们使用来自芬兰的数据，在那里，两个具有可比社会经济特征但离婚风险不同的本土民族语言群体——说瑞典语的人和说芬兰语的人——毗邻而居。利用关于整个芬兰人口（1987年至2020年的554,337对夫妇）的登记数据，我们将分居风险作为父母离婚情况的一个函数来进行研究。数据表明，在总体分居率较低的说瑞典语的人群中，代际传递更为明显。即使在控制了社会经济因素以及夫妻双方各自父母离婚的经历之后，分居风险的群体差异依然存在。值得注意的是，居住在瑞典人占主导地区的说芬兰语的夫妇，与他们在芬兰人占主导地区的同龄人相比，分居风险略高，代际传递也更强。这些结果表明，除了强大的社会经济因素之外，还存在着分居的文化传递。
