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- Title
"BOOMERANG KIDS" AND MIDLIFE PARENTAL MARITAL SATISFACTION.
- Authors
Mitchell, Barbara A.; Gee, Ellen M.
- Abstract
The article examines the determinants of midlife marital satisfaction in 172 families with boomerang kids. Over the past few decades, considerable changes have occurred in the family life course, changes involving the likelihood, timing, and sequencing. Research stemming from the life course perspective has been applied to the phenomenon of adult child-parent coincidence, but it has primarily concentrated on the determinants of this living arrangement and its consequences for intergenerational relations. However, some of the tenets of the life course perspective may be helpful in elaborating important dynamics of returns home that affect parental marital satisfaction. In particular, we are interested in those elements of life-course theory that help to delineate how and why certain characteristics of returns home may affect marriages.
- Subjects
HUMAN life cycle; CHILDREN of older parents; INTERPERSONAL relations; MARITAL satisfaction; ADULTS; SOCIAL psychology
- Publication
Family Relations, 1996, Vol 45, Issue 4, p442
- ISSN
0197-6664
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/585174