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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Apr 29.
Published in final edited form as: Future Child. 2015 Fall;25(2):89–109. doi: 10.1353/foc.2015.0014

Table 2.

Women’s Marital Life Profiles at Ages 40–44: Percentage with Life Histories of No Marriage, Stable Marriage, or Unstable Marriage

All Women
Percentage of Ever-Married Women Experiencing Unstable Marriage Percentage of Unstably Married Women Who Have …
Unstable Marriage
Race, Ethnicity, and Nativity No Marriage Stable Marriage Total Married Only Once Married 2+ Times Married Only Once Married 2+Times
White, non-Hispanic   7 54 38 16 23 41 41 59
Black, non- Hispanic 34 29 35 21 15 53 58 42
Hispanic, total 14 48 39 18 21 45 46 54
Hispanic, foreign born 11 48 41 19 21 46 48 52
Hispanic, U.S. born 21 46 34 15 19 42 43 57

Source: Author’s calculations from 2006–10 National Survey of Family Growth.