About the Authors ix Foreword is written...

About the Authors

Foreword is written by Ana Josefina Cuevas Hernández and Sampson Lee Blair

xvii

Chapter 1: An Exploratory Study of the Influence of Marital Attitudes and Skin Tone Perception on the Romantic Relationship Quality Among African American and Latinx Young Adults

Sarah N. Mitchell, Antoinette M. Landor and Katharine H. Zeiders

Chapter 2: Breaking Up Is Hard to Do: Investigating Breakup Distress and Sexual Regret in Undergraduates’ Casual and Committed Sexual Relationships

Siri Wilder, Christina L. Scott and Micaela A. Chavarin

Chapter 3: Romantic, Confessional and Post-Romantic: The Timeline of Conjugality at a Distance Between Mexico and the United States

Javiera Cienfuegos-Illanes

Chapter 4: Age-Homogamy and Age-Heterogamy in Three Generations of Heterosexual Women and Men in Mexico

Ana Josefina Cuevas Hernández

Chapter 5: Predictors of Marital Quality: What Makes a Happy Marriage in Croatia?

Josip Obradović and Mira Čudina

Chapter 6: Marriage Formation in Vietnam: Characteristics and Changes

Nguyen Huu Minh and Bui Thu Huong

109

Chapter 7: Education, Marriage Cohorts, and Different Pathways to Marriage in East Asian Societies

Shichao Du

129

Chapter 8: Life Trajectories and Reproductive Strategies of Costa Rican Households: An Intergenerational Perspective

Natalia Carballo Murillo

151

Chapter 9: What Difference Does Marriage Make? Life Course Trajectories and the Transition to Marriage for Gay Men and Lesbians

Aaron Hoy

175

Chapter 10: Identifying Predictors of First Versus Subsequent Divorce Among Divorcing Parents

Joshua J. Turner, Olena Kopystynska, Kay Bradford, Brian J. Higginbotham and David G. Schramm

195

Chapter 11: Unintended Higher-Order Births and Union Stability: Variation by Union Characteristics

J. Bart Stykes and Karen Benjamin Guzzo

213

Chapter 12: Dynamism and Changes in the Abia Family Structure and Conjugal Relationship: The Influence of the Nigerian Civil War

Chigozirim Ogubuike, Mofeyisara Oluwatoyin Omobowale and Olukemi K. Amodu

233

Index

255

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About the Authors	ix
Foreword is written by Ana Josefina Cuevas Hernández and Sampson Lee Blair	xvii
Chapter 1: An Exploratory Study of the Influence of Marital Attitudes and Skin Tone Perception on the Romantic Relationship Quality Among African American and Latinx Young Adults
Sarah N. Mitchell, Antoinette M. Landor and Katharine H. Zeiders	1
Chapter 2: Breaking Up Is Hard to Do: Investigating Breakup Distress and Sexual Regret in Undergraduates’ Casual and Committed Sexual Relationships
Siri Wilder, Christina L. Scott and Micaela A. Chavarin	25
Chapter 3: Romantic, Confessional and Post-Romantic: The Timeline of Conjugality at a Distance Between Mexico and the United States
Javiera Cienfuegos-Illanes	41
Chapter 4: Age-Homogamy and Age-Heterogamy in Three Generations of Heterosexual Women and Men in Mexico
Ana Josefina Cuevas Hernández	59
Chapter 5: Predictors of Marital Quality: What Makes a Happy Marriage in Croatia?
Josip Obradović and Mira Čudina	81
Chapter 6: Marriage Formation in Vietnam: Characteristics and Changes
Nguyen Huu Minh and Bui Thu Huong	109
Chapter 7: Education, Marriage Cohorts, and Different Pathways to Marriage in East Asian Societies
Shichao Du	129
Chapter 8: Life Trajectories and Reproductive Strategies of Costa Rican Households: An Intergenerational Perspective
Natalia Carballo Murillo	151
Chapter 9: What Difference Does Marriage Make? Life Course Trajectories and the Transition to Marriage for Gay Men and Lesbians
Aaron Hoy	175
Chapter 10: Identifying Predictors of First Versus Subsequent Divorce Among Divorcing Parents
Joshua J. Turner, Olena Kopystynska, Kay Bradford, Brian J. Higginbotham and David G. Schramm	195
Chapter 11: Unintended Higher-Order Births and Union Stability: Variation by Union Characteristics
J. Bart Stykes and Karen Benjamin Guzzo	213
Chapter 12: Dynamism and Changes in the Abia Family Structure and Conjugal Relationship: The Influence of the Nigerian Civil War
Chigozirim Ogubuike, Mofeyisara Oluwatoyin Omobowale and Olukemi K. Amodu	233
Index	255

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