Racial Differences in Early Parental Death, Midlife Life Problems, and Relationship Strain With Adult Children.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Black Americans typically experience the death of a parent earlier in the life course than do non-Hispanic Whites, and early parental death is known to hinder subsequent relationship outcomes. Whether early parental death may contribute to racial differences in midlife family relationships and the role midlife adults' current life problems play remain unexplored.

Method

Using multilevel modeling, we examined how timing of parental death is associated with relationship strain with adult children and whether the association differs by midlife adults' life problems in Black (n = 166) and non-Hispanic White (n = 467) families from the Family Exchanges Study.

Results

Losing a parent in childhood was associated with more relationship strain with adult children fo

SUBMITTER: Kim YK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8436672 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature