INTERGENERATIONAL PANEL STUDY OF PARENTS AND CHILDREN

这是一项研究重要家庭和家庭决策的建议 儿童在过渡到成年期的过程中受到的伤害。特定的家庭和 将审查的家庭决定包括：(A)居住分离 来自父母家庭；(B)约会、婚前性行为和同居； (C)结婚；及(D)生育。最近发生的快速变化 家庭行为和态度以及年轻人决策的重要性 为他们未来的生活研究这些家庭的决定因素 而家庭决策尤其及时。 这项研究将通过扩展现有的数据体来进行 一群年轻人和他们的父母。现有的数据库来自 来自一项对18年来六次采访的女性的纵向研究 从1962年到1980年，他们18岁的孩子也是 1980年接受采访。我们建议重新采访这些妇女和儿童 1985年，扩展现有数据以涵盖儿童的经历 以及他们的家人，因为孩子们正在过渡到成年。 在1962年接受采访的家庭中，85%的家庭参与了 我们期待着这种高水平的合作将 在1985年的面谈期间继续。 对于每个家庭和家庭的决定--居住安排， 约会和同居、婚姻和生育--以下问题 将研究：(A)父母家庭对家庭的影响 他们年轻成年子女的选择和经历，包括影响 家庭结构、父母的社会经济地位、父母的态度和 对孩子的渴望，以及孩子的素质--父母 关系；(B)这些重大事件的发生、时间和先后顺序 家庭决定是相互关联的；(C)它们之间的相互关系 有教育和职业抱负的家庭决定以及 成就；(D)青少年的态度和计划 随后实施并修改为年轻人进行过渡 到成年；以及(E)生命历程的决定和经历 孩子、他们的父母和他们的祖父母是交织在一起的。

This is a proposal to study important family and household decisions made by children during their transition to adulthood. The specific family and household decisions to be examined include: (a) residential separation from the parental household; (b) dating, premarital sex, and cohabitation; (c) marriage; and (d) childbearing. The rapid pace of recent change in familial behavior and attitudes and the importance of young adult decisions for their future lives make research into the determinants of these family and household decisions particularly timely. This research will be conducted by extending an existing body of data on a cohort of young adults and their parents. The existing data base comes from a longitudinal study of women interviewed six times over the 18-year period from 1962 to 1980 and their 18-yearr-old children who were also interviewed in 1980. We propose to reinterview these women and children in 1985, extending the existing data to cover the experiences of the children and their families as the children make the transition to adulthood. Eighty-five percent of the families interviewed in 1962 participated in the study in 1980, and we expect that this high level of cooperation will continue during the 1985 interviews. For each family and household decision--residential living arrangements, dating and cohabitation, marriage, and childbearing--the following issues will be studied: (a) the effects of the parental family on the family choices and experiences of their young adult children, including the effect of family structure, parental socioeconomic status, parental attitudes and aspirations for their children, and the quality of the child-parent relationship; (b) how the incidence, timing, and sequencing of these major family decisions are interrelated; (c) the interrelationship of these family decisions with educational and occupational aspirations and achievements; (d) the ways in which teenage attitudes and plans are subsequently implemented and modified as young people make the transition to adulthood; and (e) how the life course decisions and experiences of children, their parents, and their grandparents are intertwined.