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- Title
Childhood family transitions and their impact on family living arrangements in later life.
- Authors
Feldhaus, Michael; Boehnke, Mandy; Krohn, Franziska
- Abstract
This paper concentrates on intergenerational transmission effects. We investigate whether the experience of having a family transition, the number of family transitions as well as the subsequent childhood living arrangement influence family patterns in later life. We extend previous research by concentrating our analysis on the long-term effects of childhood transitions on family- related outcomes in adulthood. For this, we used data from the German Family Panel, which allowed us to do detailed transmission analyses. Our results show that experiencing (a) family transition(s) during childhood as well as growing up in a non-traditional family type comes along with a higher probability of having no children as well as living in a non-traditional family pattern in later adulthood. We also found a cumulative risk effect: With an increasing number of transitions, the probability of living in a traditional family in later life decreases whereas nonstandard family forms and not having children become more likely.
- Subjects
GERMANY; INTERGENERATIONAL relations; PARENT-child relationships; DIVORCE &; society; PROBABILITY theory; FAMILIES
- Publication
Zeitschrift für Familienforschung (ZzF), 2015, Vol 27, p83
- ISSN
1437-2940
- Publication type
Article