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Starting Over

Why Remarriages Are More Unstable

Pennsylvania State University

JOHN N. EDWARDS

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Using interview data from a national sample of married persons, the extent to which people in remarriages have attributes that adversely influence marital quality and stability is examined. Five models linking remarriage-induced attributes to an increased probability of a decline in marital quality and divorce are evaluated. Persons in remarriages are more likely to be poorly integrated with parents and in-laws, willing to leave the marriage, be poor marriage material, and to have lower socioeconomic status and age-heterogeneous marriages. All but socioeconomic status are found to explain declines in marital quality and higher levels of marital instability. Together the remaining four models explain major portions of the remarriage/marital-quality and remarriage/divorce relationships.

Journal of Family Issues, Vol. 13, No. 2, 179-194 (1992)
DOI: 10.1177/019251392013002004


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