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Marital implications of parent-adult child coresidence
— a longitudinal view | | Author(s) | Russell A Ward, Glenna D Spitze |
| Journal title | Journals of Gerontology: Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, vol 59B, no 1, January 2004 |
| Pages | pp S2-S8 |
| Source | http://www.geron.org |
| Keywords | Children [offspring] ; Parents ; Living with family ; Family relationships ; Marriage ; Longitudinal surveys ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Implications of changes in co-residence with adult children to parents' marital relations are assessed. It is hypothesised that adult children's transitions to co-residence lower marital quality, while transitions out increase marital quality. The authors use panel data from Waves 1 and 2 of the US National Survey of Families and Households, to analyse whether change in three measures of marital quality - time together, happiness and disagreements - is related to adult child co-residence. When adult children move out, parent couples increase their time together; there is a tendency to reduce time together when the nest "refills". However, there are no effects of moves in or out on the marital happiness of parents or the number of marital disagreements they have. There is also no effect on time together on marital quality when one adult child moves out but another moves in during the same period. The presence of younger children has more consistent associations with marital quality. Thus co-residence with adult children does not appear to be an experience that disrupts the quality of marital relations. It may be that qualitative dimensions of co-residence experiences with adult children matter more than co-residence per se. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-040705207 A |
| Classmark | SS: SR: KA:SJ: DS:SJ: SL: 3J: 7T |
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