Some people are serial marriers and divorcers. Others learn from their first mistakes. Many remarried couples report having closer and more egalitarian marriages than in their first marriage. And Jones cites research showing that heterosexual stepfamilies report no more stress than biological families when they avoid traditional gender roles and have high marital quality.
The past and the present of remarriage: Historian Stephanie Coontz of Evergreen points out that remarriages were even more common in the past than they are today. The typical tension in remarriages of the past, she argues, occurred when the biological relatives and step-relatives actively sabotaged the emergence of love and obligation in a blended family, trying to deny inheritance and assistance to one set of children in favor of another.
The typical tension in most remarriages today occurs when people expect love and obligation to develop too quickly, or try to force a newly-blended family to behave exactly like a first-marriage family.
User account menu Log in Image. The challenges of remarriage have changed as stepfamilies have become more common.
In , the presence of stepchildren was associated with more marital conflict and lower satisfaction. But by that trend had reversed, so that remarriages with stepchildren had better marital quality on average than those without. Yet on average, remarriages are less stable than first marriages — and they have become even more unstable over the past two decades. In , less than a quarter of remarriages ended in divorce within 5 years.
Today that is up to 31 percent. The marriage market was a measure of age, education, and religious differences. Marital quality was examined in terms of happiness, interaction, disagreement, and divorce proneness. Multiple classification analysis was used to compare attributes by marital history.
The methods of Kessler and Greenberg were used to examine changes in marital quality over time in first time marriages and remarriages. The results indicate that individuals in remarriages have relationships with attributes which potentially lower marital quality and increase the probability of divorce. When both individuals have prior marriage and divorce experience, there is even lower social integration, greater willingness to leave marriage, higher probability of marrying as a teen, lower socioeconomic status, and greater likelihood of age differences.
Remarriage variables and marital quality variables both showed linear relationships. In the cross sectional analysis of the data there is a statistically significant relationship with attributes which potentially lower marital quality in indicates remarried persons are more prone to lower marital quality than people in first marriages.
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