Journal
SOCIAL FORCES
Volume 95, Issue 1, Pages 321-353Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC
DOI: 10.1093/sf/sow033
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- Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Family Demography Training Grant [T-32HD007514]
- California Center for Population Research, UCLA
- Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development [R24-HD41022]
- National Institute on Aging project Intergenerational Family Transfers of Time and Money [P01AG029409]
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Parents play a key role in launching their children into adulthood. Differences in the resources they provide their children have implications for perpetuating patterns of family inequality. Using data on 6,962 young adults included in the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997, we examine differences in the support parents provide to young adult children by immigrant status and race/ethnicity and whether and how those differences are explained by parent resources and young adult resources and roles. Immigrant status and race/ethnicity are associated with patterns of support in complex ways. We find that racial/ethnic and immigrant disparities in perceptions of support, financial support, and receiving advice from parents about education or employment are explained by family socioeconomic resources. Group differences in whether young adults say they would turn to a parent for advice and coresidence persist after accounting for these factors, however. Young adult resources and roles also shape parental support of young adults in the transition to adulthood, but taking account of these characteristics does not explain immigrant and racial/ethnic group differences. Our findings highlight the need to consider both race/ethnicity and immigrant status to understand family relationships and sources of support.
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