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Article: Differences in early romantic relationships do not account for racial gap in youths' marital expectations.(surveys)
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- Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health
- Article date:
- December 1, 2005
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Racial differences in early experiences with intimacy and commitment do not explain why white adolescents have a higher expectation than blacks of marrying in young adulthood. (1) In a study based on a nationally representative sample of adolescents, larger proportions of white men and white women than of their black counterparts had had a serious relationship. However, in analyses that took these patterns into account, white adolescents of both sexes still rated their chances of marrying by age 25 higher than did their black peers.
The analyses used data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health), for which a sample of adolescents in ...