Remarriage among women in the United States: 1985

Abstract

"This paper has presented a description of recent trends in remarriage for women in the United States.... The focus has been on who is most likely to remarry among women whose first marriage ends in divorce or widowhood.... The major findings in the paper indicate that remarriage is much more likely after divorce than after widowhood and that while characteristics like age, race, Hispanic origin, education, and presence of children have some role in determining remarriage prospects, age at divorce or widowhood exerts an overriding influence on the likelihood of remarriage."