Intergenerational Patterns of Union Formation and Relationship Quality

Autor/inn/en	Sassler, Sharon; Cunningham, Anna; Lichter, Daniel T.
Titel	Intergenerational Patterns of Union Formation and Relationship Quality
Quelle	In: Journal of Family Issues, 30 (2009) 6, S.757-786 (30 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0192-513X
DOI	10.1177/0192513X09331580
Schlagwörter	Context Effect; One Parent Family; Divorce; Young Adults; Intimacy; Interpersonal Relationship; Age Differences; Pattern Recognition; Experience; Parent Child Relationship; Marital Instability; Family (Sociological Unit); National Survey of Families and Households + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Single parent family; Ein-Eltern-Familie; Ehescheidung; Young adult; Junger Erwachsener; Intimität; Interpersonal relation; Interpersonal relations; Interpersonelle Beziehung; Zwischenmenschliche Beziehung; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Mustererkennung; Erfahrung; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Familienkonflikt; Familie
Abstract	The authors examine whether young adults who experienced their parents' divorce and new relationships have different relationship trajectories than those who spent their childhoods living with biological parents in married-couple families. The analysis is based on longitudinal reports from more than 1,500 children from Wave 1 of the 1987-1988 National Survey of Families and Households who were ages 18 to 34 at Wave 3 (in 2001-2002). The results suggest that parents' intimate relationships serve as templates for their children. Children of divorce had elevated rates of cohabitation as adults, relative to marriage. But union outcomes were not uniform for all children who experienced parental divorce. Those whose parents cohabited following divorce exhibited elevated odds of cohabiting themselves, compared to young adults whose parents remarried without first cohabiting or remained in stable marriages. Parental cohabitation also undermines relationship quality and stability among married or dating young adults. (Contains 4 tables and 15 notes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10