The authors investigated intergenerational support exchanges in relation to young adults' life course status. In a sample of 2,022 young adults (ages 18–34 years) in The Netherlands, single young adults reported receiving more advice from parents than married young adults, and those with children of their own received more practical support. Married young adults and young adults with children provided less support to parents than, respectively, single young adults and young adults without children. Congruent with the life course perspective, the authors' findings suggest that the intergenerational support network is both durable and flexible, responding to the resources and needs associated with an individual's life course status.

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This study examined how the life course status of young adults-whether they have a romantic partner and whether they have children-is related to how often they have contact with their parents. Hypotheses were tested using recent data from the Netherlands Kinship Panel Study. The main sample included 1,911 young adults between the ages of 18 and 34. Results suggest that young adults' entrance into cohabitation and marriage is associated with less face-toface contact with parents. Young adults with children of their own tend to see their parents more frequently than young adults without offspring. Findings are congruent with the family life course perspective, contending that family relationships are related to the life course status of individual family members.

The aim of this research was to explore unwanted sexual behaviour amongs young people. Sexual aggression was operationalized at three levels: ''verbal'', ''non-verbal/intimidating'' and ''physically violent''. A total of 1,700 Dutch adolescents completed a questionnaire that included six clusters of possible determinants of unwanted sexual behaviour: background characteristics, personality characteristics, family environment, school environment, friends and deviant behaviour and sexuality and relationships. We found that victims of unwanted sexual behaviour are often perpetrators, and perpetrators are often victims. The adolescent phase can be a time of sexual exploration for many young people when they explore their own boundaries and those of others. In so doing they run the risk of transgressing boundaries and thereby becoming a victim or perpetrator of unwanted sexual behaviour.

The purpose of this research is the explanation of differences in cultural participation of adolescents of different ethnic backgrounds. Six hundred ninety-eight Dutch and ethnic minority adolescents in a large city in the Netherlands filled in a questionnaire about their active cultural participation (e.g., playing musical instruments, dancing, acting, drawing) and receptive cultural participation (e.g., going to classical concerts, plays, museums). The expected lower cultural participation among minority youth (i.e., youth whose parents had both been born in Morocco, Turkey or former Dutch colonies such as Surinam and the Dutch Antilles) was limited to Moroccan and Turkish youths' receptive cultural participation. Contrary to the acculturation hypothesis, we did not find any indication of a growing resemblance in youth cultural participation between the different ethnic groups. In keeping with Bourdieu's reproduction theory, it was examined whether well-educated parents with ample cultural capital raise children who are also successful in acquiring educational and cultural capital. The findings suggest that mothers play a key role. Mothers exert a far greater cultural influence on their daughters than on their sons. Moreover, the cultural influence of mothers on daughters www.elsevier.com/locate/poetic Poetics 34 (2006) 65-82 is much stronger than that of fathers. We conclude that intergenerational cultural reproduction affects Dutch and ethnic minority children in the same way. # 2005 Published by Elsevier B.V.