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Life Course Status and Exchanges of Support Between Young Adults and Parents
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.
Key Words: intergenerational relations, intergenerational transfers, life course theory, life events and/or transitions, parent – child relations, youth/emergent adulthood.
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