Intergenerational Family Relations in Adulthood
Patterns, Variations, and Implications in the Contemporary United States
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7635361 |
|---|---|
| Authors | T T Swartz (0000-0002-2576-5443, University of Minnesota, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 35 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 191-212 |
| Publication date | 2009-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Annual Review of Sociology (BOOK_SERIES) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0360-0572 • E-ISSN: 1545-2115 |
| Publisher | Annual Reviews (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1146/annurev.soc.34.040507.134615 |
| OpenAlex | W2121157951 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 264 |
| References cited | 108 |
Recent research suggests that intergenerational relations—the relationships between adult children and their parents in particular—are becoming increasingly important to Americans. Two main social forces appear to be driving these changes: marital instability and broader demographic shifts. Intergenerational relationships involve both affective ties and more instrumental forms of support such as financial resources or child care. Although actual material assistance tends to be episodic and primarily responsive to specific needs, these relationships appear to be durable and flexible and often fill in when marriage or other emotional attachments deteriorate. As such, intergenerational family relations may reflect adaptations to contemporary, postmodern economic and cultural conditions. Variations in these general patterns and dynamics are also exhibited, the most striking of which are those involving race and class. These variations are driven largely by social structure and position and suggest that intergenerational relations constitute an important and largely hidden aspect of how families contribute to the reproduction of social inequality in society. These findings reinforce the value of extending both scholarly and cultural notions of family beyond the traditional nuclear family model
Developmental psychology · Extended family · Inequality · Nuclear family · Race (biology · Reproduction · Social relation · Sociology · Value (mathematics · Family Dynamics and Relationships · Gender Studies · Health disparities and outcomes · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving · Psychology · Social Psychology · Ecology
U.S. Long‐Term Care Infrastructure and Parent‐Child Co‐Residence Among Unmarried Older Adults
Fast life histories, not pathogens, account for state-level variation in homicide, child maltreatment, and family ties in the U.S.
The Baby Boomers' Intergenerational Relationships
Evolution of the Conceptualization of Filial Piety in the Global Context
Social Support from Family and Friends and Subjective Well-Being of Older African Americans
Social Relations and Technology
Mapping the Cultural Repertoires of Family Estrangement
My Favorite One Is the One Who Is There Right Now
Structural Disadvantages to the Kin Network from Intergenerational Racial Health Inequities
Family Relationships and Well-Being
(Family) Ties That Bind
Influence of gender on the use of kinship terms in English and Serbian
Financial support by older adults to family members
Instrumental support exchanges among kin and non-kin in light of personal configurations
Credit Cards and the Receipt of Financial Assistance from Friends and Family
Credit Card Debt and the Provision of Financial Support to Kin in the US
How birth order moderates the negative effects of insecure attachment on anticipatory anxiety regarding parent care
Reciprocal influences among mother-grandmother coparenting relationship, mother-child attachment, and preschoolers’ self-control in Chinese intergenerational coparenting family
Different associations of parental control, attachment, and child depressive symptoms between paternal and maternal Grandparenting families
Grandparenting in China
Role modeling or reciprocity? Dyadic intergenerational transfer analysis of efficacy and support
Longitudinal trajectories of adult sibling relationship quality and psychological well‐being
Patterns and Processes of Intergenerational Estrangement
Revisiting Intergenerational Contact and Relationship Quality in Later Life
Patterns and Consequences of Adult Grandchildren’s Perceptions of Grandmothers' Differential Treatment on Well-Being
Intergenerational Caregiving Patterns, Living Arrangements, and Life Satisfaction of Adults in Mid and Later Life in China
I love you no matter what
Reciprocal associations between affectual, associational, and normative solidarity with parents during children’s early to established adulthood
How mothers manage the stressor of an adult son's incarceration
Higher Education, Bigger Networks? Differences by Family Socioeconomic Background and Network Measures
Is the relationship between religiosity and filial elder-care norms declining? A comparison between two middle-aged generations
Pathways of Intergenerational Support between Parents and Children throughout Adulthood
Gender and family structures affecting intergenerational support from adult children to older parents
Grandparenting and life satisfaction of the aged in rural areas
Sharing Lives
Envelhecimento, emprego e remunerações nas regiões portuguesas
Parental Coresidence, Young Adult Role, Economic, and Health Changes, and Psychological Well-being
Keys to the Future
Estrangement between parents and adult children in Korea
An unbreakable bond? Maternal adverse childhood experiences and mothers’ relationships with adult children
Intergenerational Ties in Context
Love and Sexuality in Later Life
Parent–adult child estrangement in the United States by gender, race/ethnicity, and sexuality
Parent-Child Relationships at the Transition to Adulthood
“I'm Not Going to Leave Her High and Dry”
Black–White disparities in nuclear family trajectories and parents' postsecondary transfers to adult children
Wealth accumulation by hypogamy in own and parental education in China
Unequal Time Transfers
Parents' socioeconomic status and support to adult children across the life course
Generations of Advantage. Multigenerational Correlations in Family Wealth
Cohabiting adult children's transfers to parents in the United States
Time, money, and entry into parenthood
‘I Wish They Had Birthright for Adults!’
Are grandparents a blessing or a burden? Multigenerational coresidence and child-related spending
Everyday discrimination in later life
The ties that transplant
Adult intergenerational proximity and parents' depressive symptoms
Trajectories of marijuana use and the transition to adulthood
Demand- and supply-side perspectives on parental support
Intergenerational support and retirement timing among older men and women by race/ethnicity
Maternal and paternal imprisonment in the stress process
Social contact during the Covid-19 pandemic
No Right Time
Fines, Fees, and Families
Parent-Child Relationship Quality and Filial Obligation Among American and Korean College Students
Parenthood and psychological well-being
Prädiktoren der persönlichen Verpflichtung in Eltern-Kind-Beziehungen im Erwachsenenalter
The Demography of Multigenerational Caregiving
Parent-Child Relationships from Adolescence to Adulthood
Are Mothers and Daughters Most Important? How Gender, Childhood Family Dissolution and Parents' Current Living Arrangements Affect the Personal Care of Parents
Church-Based Exchanges of Informal Social Support Among African Americans
Parenting young adults across social class
Under One Roof
Unemployment, Parental Help, and Self-Efficacy During the Transition to Adulthood
How new is "New"? Who gets added in a panel study of personal networks
Transitions in Giving and Receiving Intergenerational Financial Support in Middle and Old Age
Perceived instrumental support and children's health across the early life course
A qualitative approach to bridging and bonding social capital
Anticipated support from children and later-life health in the United States and China
All in the family
Nurturing across generations
Focused, Exploratory, or Vigilant
Grandparents would rather talk; grandchildren would rather text” the influence of ICT use on perceived social support and family communication in long-distance intergenerational familial pairs
Risk Factors and Trajectories of Highly Dependent Adult Children (Failure to Launch)
Emerging Adulthood Transitions, Family Networks, and Mental Health Within the Context of Child Maltreatment
Regional Chances, Regional Constraints
Parental Chronic Illness, Internalizing Problems in Young Adulthood and the Mediating Role of Adolescent Attachment to Parents
Population-level impact of loss on survivor mortality risk
Stability and change
Fertility in Advanced Societies
Talk of Family
Passing It On
Intergenerational emotion and solidarity in transitional China
Does Income Redistribution Reduce Inequality of Opportunities? Evidence from China
Adult Children’s Marital Timing and Upward Intergenerational Financial Transfers
How does childcare by grandparents affect the health of children in China
Living with grandparents
Women’s perceived support of parents and parents-in-law in China
Transition and continuation
Filial support behaviours
Feeding the family
Adulthood and aging
The way we never were
How Families Still Matter
Lifelines
Adult Children Helping Older Parents
Coresidence between Unmarried Aging Parents and their Adult Children
Grandmothers Raising Grandchildren
Long-term effects of parental divorce on parent-child relationships, adjustment, and achievement in young adulthood.
Elderly Parents and the Geographic Availability of their Adult Children
Family Structure and Intergenerational Exchanges
Transfer Behavior in the Health and Retirement Study
Family Relationships and Support Systems in Emerging Adulthood.
Age Norms, the Timing of Family Role Transitions, and Intergenerational Caregiving Among Aging African American Women
Material Assistance from Families During the Transition to Adulthood
Frequency of Grandparent Contact With Grandchild Sets
Interaction and Living Arrangements of Older Parents and their Children
All our kin
The Changing Contract across Generations
Aging Children and Their Older Parents
Distinction
The New American Grandparent
The Changing Transition to Adulthood
On the Frontier of Adulthood
Grandparent Involvement Following Divorce
Family capital and the invisible transfer of privilege
American Family Decline, 1960-1990
Effects of Parental Divorce and Memories of Family Problems on Relationships between Adult Children and their Parents
Reciprocity in Parent-Child Relations Over the Adult Life Course
Young Adults' Relations with Grandparents following Recent Parental Divorce
Attitudes regarding filial responsibilities to help elderly divorced parents and stepparents
Family Ties and Aging
Economic Support from and to Extended Kin
Consequences of growing up poor
Context and Surrogate Parenting Among Contemporary Grandparents
The New American Grandparent
Family Ties
Parental marital disruption and intergenerational transfers
Immigration and living arrangements
Childhood Living Arrangements and Adult Children’s Relations with their Parents
The Young Adult Years
Explaining Aspects of the Transition to Adulthood in Italy, Sweden, Germany, and the United States
Pathways to Adulthood in Changing Societies
Extended Family Integration Among Euro and Mexican Americans
Race and Ethnic Variation in Norms of Filial Responsibility among Older Persons
Giving between generations in American families
Kin Support among Blacks and Whites
Single Mothers and Social Support
Cohabitation and Exchanges of Support
Dynamic Dimensions of Family Structure in-Low-Income African American Families
Kinscripts
From Adolescent to Young Adult
Intergenerational Financial Support among Whites, African Americans, and Latinos
Intergenerational Ambivalence
Longitudinal Effects of Divorce on the Quality of the Father-Child Relationship and on Fathers' Psychological Well-Being
Factors That Predispose Middle-Aged Sons and Daughters to Provide Social Support to Older Parents
Helping between Parents and Young Adult Offspring
Do Safety Nets Work? The Role of Anticipated Help in Times of Need
Later Life Parental Divorce and Widowhood
The Likelihood of Parent-Adult Child Coresidence
Intergenerational Solidarity in Aging Families
Whose Nest? A Two-Generational View of Leaving Home during the 1980s
Affection, Social Contact, and Geographic Distance between Adult Children and Their Parents
Sources of Emergency Help and Routine Assistance in Old Age
Of Human Bonding
Support from Parents over the Life Course
Race, Kin Networks, and Assistance to Mother-Headed Families
Racial and Ethnic Differences in Extended Family Households
Creating Networks for Survival and Mobility
The Standard North American Family
Family Dynamics in Three-Generation Grandfamilies
What Accounts for Race and Ethnic Differences in Parental Financial Transfers to Adult Children in the United States
Intergenerational Support to Aging Parents
Impact of Family Structure on Parental Attitudes Toward the Economic Support of Adult Children Over the Transition to Adulthood
The Role of Offspring and In-Laws in Grandparents' Ties to Their Grandchildren
The Effect of Parental Divorce and Remarriage on Parental Support for Adult Children
How Americans Enact the Grandparent Role Across the Family Life Course
Grandparent-Adult Grandchild Affection and Consensus
Adult Grandchildren's Perceptions of Emotional Closeness and Consensus With Their Maternal and Paternal Grandparents
Adult Child-Parent Relationships
Till Marriage Do Us Part
Solidarity and Conflict Between Adult Children and Parents
Explaining the Gender Gap in Help to Parents
Social Support to Parents-in-Law
Life Course Transitions, the Generational Stake, and Grandparent-Grandchild Relationships
Sociological Ambivalence and Family Ties
Helping Out the Kids
Beyond the Nuclear Family
The Dynamics of Kin in an Industrial Community
The Female World of Cards and Holidays
Intergenerational Solidarity and the Structure of Adult Child-Parent Relationships in American Families
The Structure of Intergenerational Exchanges in American Families
The Impact of Parental Transfers on Living Standards of Married Children
| Unique citing works | 264 |
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| Citations per year | 16,5 |
| Citation span | 2010 - 2026 (17) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 262 |