INTERGENERATIONAL PANEL STUDY OF PARENTS AND CHILDREN

这是一个研究家庭形成和解体的建议。 年轻人的经历。该项目的主要重点是 家庭生活的四个相互关联的领域--同居、婚姻、 生育和婚姻解体。这项研究将调查这两个问题 家庭形成和解体的决定因素和后果 在年轻的成年时期。近些年来家庭生活的快速变化 行为和态度以及年轻人决策的重要性 他们未来的生活研究关于家庭的形成和 解散尤其及时。 这项研究将扩展队列中现有的纵向数据体 年轻人和他们的母亲。母亲们，她们每个人都生了一个 1961年的孩子，从1962年到1985年接受了七次采访。这个孩子 1961年出生的人在1980年(18岁)和1985年都被纳入了这项研究 (23岁)。回应率异常高，而且有一个完整的 这项研究的所有方面都对母亲和孩子进行了采访 在1962年最初纳入的家庭中，有82%的家庭。1962-1985年 数据集包含来自母亲和 孩子们。1985年的调查使用了生活史日历，从 年轻人每月回顾他们的生活安排数据， 同居、婚姻、生育、上学和工作。 拟议的研究将在1993年重新采访这些母亲和孩子， 将数据扩展到涵盖儿童和他们的经历 当孩子们成熟到30岁出头的时候，家庭就会变得成熟起来。超过97 在1980年接受采访的母亲和儿童中，也有 在1985年接受采访，我们预计1993年的成功率与此类似 重新采访。 这31年的跨代面板数据将被用来检验四个 一般问题。一个是父母家庭对孩子的影响。 青少年同居、结婚、生育、离婚经历 成年人，研究传播艾滋病影响的因果机制 父母对孩子的行为有很大的兴趣。第二个问题涉及 青少年家庭形成和解体经历的方式 成年人受态度、价值观和宗教信仰的影响。一个 第三个研究领域是居住安排的影响和 婚前同居对后婚、婚姻解体、 还有生育能力。最后一项研究课题 关注年轻人的经历如何影响 他们的父母。

This is a proposal to study the family formation and dissolution experiences of young adults. The primary focus of the project centers on four broad interrelated areas of family life--cohabitation, marriage, childbearing, and marital dissolution. This research will investigate both the determinants and consequences of family formation and dissolution during the young adult years. The rapid pace of recent changes in familial behavior and attitudes and the importance of young adult decisions for their future lives make research concerning family formation and dissolution particularly timely. This research will extend an existing longitudinal body of data on a cohort of young adults and their mothers. The mothers, each of whom had borne a child in 1961, were interviewed seven times from 1962 to 1985. The child born in 1961 was included in the study in both 1980 (at age 18) and 1985 (at age 23). Response rates have been unusually high, and there is a full set of interviews across all waves of the study from mothers and children in 82 percent of the families originally included in 1962. The 1962-1985 data set contains a wide range of information from both mothers and children. The 1985 survey used a life history calendar to obtain from the young adults monthly retrospective data about their living arrangements, cohabitation, marriage, childbearing, schooling, and work. The proposed research will reinterview these mothers and children in 1993, extending the data to cover the experiences of the children and their families as the children mature into their early thirties. More than 97 percent of the mothers and children interviewed in 1980 were also interviewed in 1985, and we expect similar rates of success for the 1993 reinterview. This 31-year intergenerational panel data will be used to examine four general issues. One is the influence of the parental family on the cohabitation, marriage, childbearing, and divorce experience of young adults, investigating the causal mechanisms that transmit the influence of parents to the behavior of their children. A second issue concerns the ways in which the family formation and dissolution experiences of young adults are influenced by attitudes, values, and religious commitment. A third area of research is the influence of living arrangements and cohabitation before marriage on subsequent marriage, marital dissolution, and childbearing. A final research topic concerns the ways in which the experiences of the young adults influence their parents.