The Transition to Adulthood Matters

Staff, Jeremy; Ramirez, Nayan G.; Vuolo, Mike

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-08308-7_10

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“…The transition to adulthood offers many potential turning points for individuals. A time of "firsts" (Staff, Ramirez, and Vuolo 2015), it is described as demographically dense, in reference to high potential for marriage, childbearing, and migration (Rindfuss 1991). This developmental stage offers individuals the opportunity to continue or change their trajectories of health lifestyle, SES, and identity.…”

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Health Lifestyles and the Transition to Adulthood

Lawrence

Mollborn

Goode

et al. 2020

Socius

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Prior research has shown the theoretical importance and empirical feasibility of health lifestyles but has not examined their patterns over the life course or their dynamic associations with socioeconomic status (SES) and adult roles. The authors develop and apply a life-course approach to understanding individuals’ health lifestyles across the transition to adulthood, using U.S. data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health ( n = 6,863). The results show that ascribed SES is associated with adolescent health lifestyles, and those health lifestyles are associated with later health lifestyles. The results also demonstrate the developmental specificity of health lifestyles. Dissimilarities and variations in the clusterings of behaviors and their associations with SES, along with patterning of adult roles, support a contextualized, life course–focused interpretation of health lifestyle development. The authors highlight the need for an integrated life-course model of the development of health disparities that combines both stability and change.

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Section: Developmental Specificitymentioning

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Health Lifestyles and the Transition to Adulthood

Lawrence

Mollborn

Goode

et al. 2020

Socius

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“…Some scholars argue that given today's economic and labor market insecurities, parents are even more crucial in enabling children to reach a number of milestones, such as enrolling in and finishing higher education, purchasing a home, and having children of their own, while also remaining engaged in the labor market (for an in-depth review, see Swartz 2009). In other words, the possibility of relying on parental solidarity, which might be affected by the experience of family complexity, appears to be a crucial factor in stratification of the younger generation (McLanahan 2004;Staff, Ramirez, and Vuolo 2015). Thus, increases in family complexity warrant further theorizing and new data for a better understanding of the present-day diversity of parent-child ties.…”

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Family Complexity into Adulthood: The Central Role of Mothers in Shaping Intergenerational Ties

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As a result of the divorce revolution, more children grow up in complex families. Yet, we know little about how family complexity affects relationships when children are adults and parents are ageing. In this article, we use unique survey data to test fundamental ideas about intergenerational ties: the role of biology, partnerships (marriage and cohabitation), residence, and selection. The survey used a register-based oversample of Dutch adults who grew up in nonstandard families, collected data among adult children and their parent figures, and used a double multi-actor design in which adult children reported on their parents and parents reported on their children. Using random-and fixed-effects models, we confirm most hypotheses but the results are highly gendered. For fathers, we find evidence for a partnership premium and no disadvantage of being a stepparent once the length of residence is adjusted. For mothers, the partnership premium is weaker but the effect of biology is strong: stepmotherstepchild ties are much weaker, even after taking residence patterns into account. Biological mothers are the primary kinkeepers, and for fathers of any type, their relationship to children depends on their partnership to the biological mother. Within-family comparisons suggest that selection into divorce and remarriage do not explain these disadvantages.

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“…Most research is limited to the role of stepparents during childhood, although these parent–child relations can be argued to be just as critical during the dynamic sequence of important life transitions characteristic of young and early middle adulthood. These transitions, such as entering the labor market and family formation (Rindfuss, ; Staff, Ramirez, & Vuolo, ), can be emotionally, practically, and financially challenging. Therefore, parental support—and, potentially, stepparental support—plays an important role in this stage of children's lives (Swartz, ).…”

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Stepparental Support to Adult Children: The Diverging Roles of Stepmothers and Stepfathers

Houdt

Kalmijn

Ivanova

2019

J of Marriage and Family

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Objective This study examines the support from stepparents to adult children and considers the role of the composition of the parent network, that is, the presence or absence of the biological mother or father. Background Going beyond previous research that compared the support provided by different types of parental households, this study provides deeper insights into adult stepfamily dynamics by considering support transfers on the stepparent–stepchild dyad level. Method The analyses were based on data from the Ouders en Kinderen in Nederland (Parents and Children in the Netherlands) survey, which was conducted among a stratified random sample of Dutch adults (aged 25–45) with stepparents reporting on support from each of their stepparents (N = 4,351) and biological parents (N = 5,460) separately. Results The results revealed different stories for stepmothers and stepfathers. Within‐child analyses showed that, controlled for the duration of coresidence, children received less types of support from their stepmother than from their biological mother, whereas among fathers, the stepfather provided more. When compared between children, stepmothers provided less types of support if their stepchild's biological mother was still alive, whereas stepfathers' support was unaffected by the biological father's presence. Stepparents of both genders provided less types of support if their partner (i.e., the child's biological parent) was deceased. Conclusion These findings articulate the central role of the biological mother in postseparation families and the ambiguous position of the stepmother and “widowed stepparents.”

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The Transition to Adulthood Matters

Cited by 5 publications

References 13 publications

Health Lifestyles and the Transition to Adulthood

Health Lifestyles and the Transition to Adulthood

Family Complexity into Adulthood: The Central Role of Mothers in Shaping Intergenerational Ties

Stepparental Support to Adult Children: The Diverging Roles of Stepmothers and Stepfathers

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