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Title: Nonfamily Living and the Erosion of Traditional Family Orientations Among Young Adults
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Waite, Linda J. Goldscheider, Frances Kobrin Witsberger, Christina |
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Nonfamily Living and the Erosion of Traditional Family Orientations Among Young Adults American Sociological Review 51,4 (August 1986): 541-554. Also: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2095586 Cohort(s): Young Men, Young Women Publisher: American Sociological Association Keyword(s): Family Structure; Gender Differences; Sex Roles Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Young adults in recent cohorts have been leaving the parental home earlier and marrying later now than they did several decades ago, resulting in an increased period of independent living. This paper explores the consequences of time spent in non-family living, using data from the NLS of Young Men and Young Women. The authors expected that experience in living away from home prior to marriage will cause young adults to change their attitudes, values, plans, and expectations, and move them away from a traditional family orientation. They found strong support for this hypothesis for young women; those who lived independently became more likely to plan for employment, lowered their expected family size, became more accepting of employment of mothers, and more non- traditional on sex roles in the family than those who lived with their parents. Non-family living had much weaker effects on young men in the few tests that were performed for them. The paper also addresses the conditions under which living away increases individualism, and discusses the implications of these findings. |
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Waite, Linda J., Frances Kobrin Goldscheider and Christina Witsberger. "Nonfamily Living and the Erosion of Traditional Family Orientations Among Young Adults." American Sociological Review 51,4 (August 1986): 541-554.
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