Table 6.
The effect of parents’ family status and class on offspring’s family dissolution–controlling for socio-demographic. By cohorts. Linear probability model
| Silent generation: 1925–1945 | Baby Boomers: 1946–1964 | Generation X: 1965–1979 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Parents’ family status (ref: intact family) | ||||||
| Non-intact family | 0.09*** | (0.036) | 0.14*** | (0.027) | 0.13*** | (0.029) |
| Parents’ class (ref: low-skilled working class) | − 0.04* | (0.021) | − 0.05*** | (0.017) | − 0.05*** | (0.013) |
| Missing class | − 0.04* | (0.021) | − 0.05*** | (0.017) | − 0.05*** | (0.013) |
| Skilled working class | 0.01 | (0.012) | − 0.02** | (0.010) | − 0.03** | (0.012) |
| Lower-middle class | 0.03** | (0.014) | − 0.01 | (0.010) | − 0.04*** | (0.012) |
| Upper-middle class | 0.01 | (0.015) | − 0.06*** | (0.010) | − 0.06*** | (0.011) |
| Parents’ family status # parents’ class | ||||||
| Non-intact # missing class | 0.04 | (0.068) | − 0.00 | (0.048) | 0.08* | (0.047) |
| Non-intact # skilled working class | 0.03 | (0.063) | − 0.03 | (0.040) | 0.00 | (0.039) |
| Non-intact # lower-middle class | − 0.06 | (0.060) | − 0.01 | (0.040) | − 0.03 | (0.037) |
| Non-intact # upper-middle class | − 0.02 | (0.078) | 0.04 | (0.047) | − 0.01 | (0.039) |
| Gender (ref: male) | ||||||
| Female | 0.04*** | (0.009) | 0.05*** | (0.007) | 0.05*** | (0.007) |
| Year of birth | 0.00*** | (0.001) | − 0.00 | (0.001) | − 0.01*** | (0.001) |
| Year of birth squared | 0.00*** | (0.001) | − 0.00 | (0.001) | − 0.01*** | (0.001) |
| Ethnicity (ref: British/white) | ||||||
| No information | − 0.02 | (0.108) | − 0.19*** | (0.022) | − 0.11*** | (0.021) |
| European/other white | − 0.07** | (0.028) | − 0.04* | (0.021) | − 0.04*** | (0.016) |
| Mixed: white & other | 0.17** | (0.087) | − 0.02 | (0.035) | 0.02 | (0.030) |
| Indian | − 0.17*** | (0.012) | − 0.18*** | (0.009) | − 0.11*** | (0.009) |
| Pakistani | − 0.12*** | (0.032) | − 0.17*** | (0.014) | − 0.10*** | (0.011) |
| Bangladeshi | − 0.12*** | (0.043) | − 0.18*** | (0.015) | − 0.14*** | (0.009) |
| Other Asian/Asian British | − 0.14*** | (0.043) | − 0.12*** | (0.021) | − 0.10*** | (0.014) |
| Black/African/Caribbean/black British | 0.05 | (0.036) | 0.00 | (0.021) | − 0.03** | (0.016) |
| Other | 0.02 | (0.068) | − 0.04 | (0.038) | − 0.10*** | (0.021) |
| Constant | − 9.29*** | (1.686) | 0.88 | (1.164) | 14.65*** | (1.589) |
| Observations | 7,999 | 15,477 | 10,027 | |||
Controls for year of birth, gender and ethnicity. Analytical samples only include individuals aged 40+
*p < .05
**p < .01
***p < .001