t lives. For example, McLanahan and Bumpass (1988) examined the effects of childhood family disruption on adult family experiences by applying proportional hazard models to data on the families of 7,969 (aged 15 44 years) women.
Findings revealed that women who spent part of their childhood in single-parent families (owing to divorce) were more likely to marry and bear children early, give birth before marriage, and have their own marriages break up. However, among Black women, early marriage was unrelated to family background. Results were said to be consistent with a socialization hypothesis, which argues that parental role models and parental supervision are the major factors in determining offspring's future family-formation orientation.
Some researchers examining for the effects of divorce have concentrated on specific populations. For example, Sims (1990) focused on women who experience divorce in their mid-years. Specifically, Sims examined the needs of midlife and older divorced
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