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Title: Family Support during the Transition to Adulthood

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Publication Year: 2004

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Abstract: As young people extend the transition to adulthood by delaying marriage and childbearing and expanding education, parents also extend their role in the lives of their children. As youth move into adulthood, families continue to greatly infl uence their children’s life chances and outcomes by, for example, providing social and employment connections, paying for college, and providing direct material support in the form of time, money, help, and shared housing. Robert Schoeni and Karen Ross, in their chapter in On the Frontier of Adulthood, examine several issues related to this material support: how much time and money youth receive from their parents between the ages of 18 and 34, the diff erence in support between high and low-income families, and the changing patt erns of support over the last 30 years. In one of the fi rst empirical att empts to estimate the amount of assistance that children receive during young adulthood, the authors fi nd that parents contribute, on average, $2,200 annually over the 17-year period, and that this support has increased substantially in the last decades.

Url: https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED520735.pdf

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Authors: Schoeni, Robert; Ross, Karen

Publisher: National Poverty Center, University of Michigan

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Family and Marriage, Work, Family, and Time

Countries: United States