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JOURNAL OF MARRIAGE AND FAMILY
Volume 66, Issue 4, Pages 901-920Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.0022-2445.2004.00061.x
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assimilation; cohabitation; Hispanics; immigration; intermarriage; marriage
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At least two important demographic changes will occur in the United States in the future: the growth of the Hispanic population and the growth of the second and third generations among Hispanics. We argue that the expansion of the Hispanic population is unlikely to slow the retreat from marriage, despite the pronuptial cultural orientations of some groups of immigrants and their native-born coethnics. On the contary, the second- and third-generation descendents of immigrants will join in the retreat from marriage as a result of their exposure to the cultural and economic environment of the United States, as well as changes in the countries from which their immigrant parents originate. Sources of uncertainty about this scenario are noted.
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