Helping out the kids: expectations about parental support in young adulthood

Article Abstract:

Research presented concerns the social aspects of parental support to young adults, focusing on the financial difficulties that face young adults and how mothers and children respond to them. Findings suggest that mothers and children have different expectations about support, with a lower proportion of mothers expecting to provide support than their children expect of them.

Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Teenagers, Youth, Parent and child, Parent-child relations, Adolescent psychology

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Men, resources, and family living: the determinants of union and parental status in the United States and Sweden

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Research presented examines the social aspects of household fatherhood, where a man lives with a woman and her children, and discusses men's parental status and partnership in Sweden and the United States. Topics addressed include family support in the two countries, and how education and income impact men's family participation.

Sweden, Social policy, Fathers, Parenthood

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The reliability of measurement and the cross-time stability of individual and family variables

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Research presented concerns the methodologies of family research and the reliability of measurement for family relationships, self-concepts, and attitudes over time. Findings suggest that these indicators can be reliably measured over time.

Methods, Social sciences, Social science methods

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