Advancing Age, Advantaged Youth: Parental Age and the Transmission of Resources to Children

Autor/inn/en	Powell, Brian; Steelman, Lala Carr; Carini, Robert M.
Titel	Advancing Age, Advantaged Youth: Parental Age and the Transmission of Resources to Children
Quelle	In: Social Forces, 84 (2006) 3, S.1359-1390 (32 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0037-7732
DOI	10.1353/sof.2006.0064
Schlagwörter	Academic Aspiration; Adolescents; Family Structure; Socioeconomic Background; Social Capital; Resource Allocation; Parent Child Relationship; Advantaged; Youth; Longitudinal Studies; Mothers; Family Financial Resources; Correlation; Race; Gender Differences; Cultural Capital; Parent Aspiration + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Familienkonstellation; Familiensystem; Sozioökonomische Lage; Sozialkapital; Ressourcenallokation; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung; Mother; Mutter; Korrelation; Rasse; Abstammung; Geschlechterkonflikt; Elternwille
Abstract	Using data from the National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988, we identify parental age as influential in the parental provision of economic resources, social capital and cultural capital to adolescents, as well as in parental educational expectations for their children. At the bivariate level, the relationship is curvilinear, suggesting that having comparatively young or old parents is disadvantageous to teenagers, at least with regard to resource allocation. With controls for socioeconomic background and family structure, however, the pattern typically becomes positive and linear: as the age of the parent rises, so too does the transmission of resources to adolescent offspring. These patterns hold for most economic, social and cultural resources, although the pattern is strongest for economic ones and weakest--albeit still significant--for more interactional ones. Although maternal age is the primary focus of this article, supplementary analyses also confirm a generally positive relationship between paternal age and parental resources. These results suggest that parental age may warrant attention similar to that given to family structure, race and gender. (As Provided).
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