Life Course Family Dynamics and Transfers From Childrento Biological Parents.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Time in childhood spent living apart from a biological parent or with a repartnered parent is theorized to disrupt norms of intergenerational solidarity and reduce transfers from adult children to parents. Parents' partnership status when children are grown is also expected to influence children's transfers. We estimate the probability of a past-year child-to-parent transfer as a function of childhood family structure and parents' current partnership status.

Background

Changes in family structure across the life course are common and can have lasting effects on parent-child relationships. Prior research has focused on static measures of childhood family structure or focused only on parents' later-life partnerships.

Method

We use dynamic measures of biologica

SUBMITTER: Patterson SE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12810881 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature