TY - JOUR
T1 - Intergenerational continuity and stability in early family formation
AU - Lansford, Jennifer E.
AU - Pettit, Gregory S.
AU - Rauer, Amy
AU - Vandenberg, Carlynn E.
AU - Schulenberg, John E.
AU - Staff, Jeremy
AU - Jager, Justin
AU - Dodge, Kenneth A.
AU - Bates, John E.
N1 - Funding Information:
Some of these findings were presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research on Adolescence held in Minneapolis, Minnesota in April 2018. The Child Development Project has been funded by grants MH56961, MH57024, and MH57095 from the National Institute of Mental Health; HD30572 from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development; and DA016903 from the National Institute on Drug Abuse.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 American Psychological Association.
PY - 2019/4
Y1 - 2019/4
N2 - This study examines intergenerational continuity (mean level similarity) and stability (maintenance of rank ordering of individuals) in age and marital status at the time of becoming a young parent using prospective data from 3 generations of 585 families. G2 participants were recruited at the age of 5 years and followed until the age of 28, by which time 227 had become parents themselves. The findings suggest that despite dramatic intergenerational discontinuities with young adults, on average, now being more likely to be unmarried and older at the time of becoming parents than in previous generations, intergenerational stability in age and marital status at the time of becoming a young parent is still substantial. This intergenerational stability was, for the most part, not moderated by demographic, familial, or behavioral factors, suggesting that a developmental, multigenerational perspective is necessary to understand what has previously been considered a largely demographic issue.
AB - This study examines intergenerational continuity (mean level similarity) and stability (maintenance of rank ordering of individuals) in age and marital status at the time of becoming a young parent using prospective data from 3 generations of 585 families. G2 participants were recruited at the age of 5 years and followed until the age of 28, by which time 227 had become parents themselves. The findings suggest that despite dramatic intergenerational discontinuities with young adults, on average, now being more likely to be unmarried and older at the time of becoming parents than in previous generations, intergenerational stability in age and marital status at the time of becoming a young parent is still substantial. This intergenerational stability was, for the most part, not moderated by demographic, familial, or behavioral factors, suggesting that a developmental, multigenerational perspective is necessary to understand what has previously been considered a largely demographic issue.
KW - Developmental continuity and stability
KW - Early family formation patterns
KW - Intergenerational
KW - Marital status
KW - Timing of parenthood
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U2 - 10.1037/fam0000497
DO - 10.1037/fam0000497
M3 - Article
C2 - 30628807
AN - SCOPUS:85059751848
SN - 0893-3200
VL - 33
SP - 370
EP - 379
JO - Journal of Family Psychology
JF - Journal of Family Psychology
IS - 3
ER -