Cunningham Mick, Thornton Arland
Department of Sociology, Western Washington University, 532 Arntzen Hall, 516 High Street, Bellingham, WA 98225-9081, USA.
Demography. 2006 Nov;43(4):659-72. doi: 10.1353/dem.2006.0031.
Drawing on a panel study of parents and children, we investigate linkages between parents' marital quality and adult children's attitudes toward a range of family issues, including premarital sex, cohabitation, lifelong singlehood, and divorce. We hypothesize that parents' marital quality will be negatively related to children's support for these behaviors in adulthood and that parents' marital quality will condition the intergenerational transmission of attitudes toward these issues. We find some evidence that parents' marital quality influences children's support for divorce and premarital sex. More important, our analyses show that parents' marital quality facilitates the intergenerational transmission of attitudes. Parents' attitudes toward premarital sex, cohabitation, and being single are more strongly linked to those same attitudes among their young adult children when parents' marital quality is high than when it is low.
基于一项针对父母与子女的面板研究，我们调查了父母的婚姻质量与成年子女对一系列家庭问题的态度之间的联系，这些问题包括婚前性行为、同居、终身单身和离婚。我们假设，父母的婚姻质量与子女成年后对这些行为的支持呈负相关，并且父母的婚姻质量将影响这些问题态度的代际传递。我们发现一些证据表明，父母的婚姻质量会影响子女对离婚和婚前性行为的支持。更重要的是，我们的分析表明，父母的婚姻质量促进了态度的代际传递。当父母的婚姻质量较高时，他们对婚前性行为、同居和单身的态度与他们成年子女的相同态度之间的联系比婚姻质量较低时更强。
