Happily Ever after? Religion, Marital Status, Gender and Relationship Quality in Urban Families

Autor/inn/en	Wolfinger, Nicholas H.; Wilcox, W. Bradford
Titel	Happily Ever after? Religion, Marital Status, Gender and Relationship Quality in Urban Families
Quelle	In: Social Forces, 86 (2008) 3, S.1311-1337 (27 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0037-7732
DOI	10.1353/sof.0.0023
Schlagwörter	Religion; Marital Status; Intimacy; Fathers; Mothers; Urban Areas; Marital Satisfaction; Gender Differences; Participation; Family (Sociological Unit); Correlation; Statistical Data; Parents + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Familienstand; Intimität; Mother; Mutter; Urban area; Stadtregion; Geschlechterkonflikt; Teilnahme; Familie; Korrelation; Eltern
Abstract	Researchers have found that religious participation is correlated with marital satisfaction. Less is known about whether religion also benefits participants in nonmarital, intimate relationships or whether religious effects on relationships vary by gender. Using data from the first three waves of the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study, we find that religious participation by fathers, irrespective of marital status, is consistently associated with better relationships among new parents in urban America; however, mothers' participation is not related to relationship quality. These results suggest that religious effects vary more by gender than by marital status. We conclude that men's investments in relationships appear to depend more on the institutional contexts of those relationships, such as participation in formal religion. (As Provided).
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