{"id":250,"date":"2017-04-06T20:27:59","date_gmt":"2017-04-06T20:27:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.duke.edu\/policy360\/?p=250"},"modified":"2021-06-17T21:37:13","modified_gmt":"2021-06-17T21:37:13","slug":"ep-43-the-death-of-the-shotgun-marriage-is-greatly-exaggerated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/policy360.org\/2017\/04\/06\/ep-43-the-death-of-the-shotgun-marriage-is-greatly-exaggerated\/","title":{"rendered":"Ep. 43 The Death of the Shotgun Marriage is Greatly Exaggerated"},"content":{"rendered":"
In the 1930s, half of all unmarried women who got pregnant out of wedlock got married (a so-called “shotgun marriage.”) By the second half of the 2000s, only 6% of women in the same situation married before giving birth. But recently shotgun marriages have actually risen among certain groups of women.<\/p>\n
Episode features Anna Gassman-Pines, Associate Professor in the Sanford School of Public Policy and faculty fellow of the Duke Center for Child and Family Policy. Anna co-authored the study with her Sanford colleagues Christina Gibson-Davis and Elizabeth O. Ananat.<\/p>\n