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Pearce, Lisa D.; Thornton, Arland – Journal of Marriage and Family, 2007
This article examines how religion shapes family ideologies in young adulthood. Using the 31-year Intergenerational Panel Study of Parents and Children (N = 909), we find relationships between mother's religious characteristics when her child was born and the child's own family ideologies in young adulthood. Further, multiple dimensions of young…
Descriptors: Religion, Ideology, Young Adults, Adolescents
Cunningham, Mick; Thornton, Arland – Journal of Marriage and Family, 2005
Data from the Intergenerational Panel Study of Parents and Children are used to identify the influences of adult union transitions on changes in attitudes toward cohabitation among a sample of 794 young adults. The analysis examines the extent to which attitudes about cohabitation change as a result of entry into and exit from cohabitation and…
Descriptors: Marriage, Young Adults, Unions, Student Attitudes
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Binstock, Georgina; Thornton, Arland – Journal of Marriage and Family, 2003
The goal of this study was to track and compare the paths along which young adults arrange and time the entries and exits from marital and cohabiting unions. The focus was on the incidence, durations, and outcomes of dimensions that embrace residential separation. Results show that union trajectories are dynamic and involve a heterogeneous and…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Cohabitation, Dating (Social), Interaction Process Analysis
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Thornton, Arland; Camburn, Donald – Journal of Marriage and the Family, 1989
Analyzed longitudinal survey data for relationship between adolescent sexuality and adolescents' religious affiliation and participation among Detroit area families (N=916). Confirmed previous findings which showed strong correlation between religious involvement and adolescent sexual attitudes and behavior, i.e., religious adolescents had least…
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Affective Behavior
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Thornton, Arland; And Others – Journal of Marriage and the Family, 1993
Examined living arrangements in early adulthood using event history data from people aged 23 in 1985. Results showed great heterogeneity in pathways out of parental home. Young adults fanned out in all directions, with many experiencing marriage, cohabitation, group quarters, living with housemates, and living alone. (Author/NB)
Descriptors: Cohabitation, Marriage, Place of Residence, Young Adults
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Goldscheider, Frances K.; Thornton, Arland; Yang, Li-Shou – Journal of Marriage and Family, 2001
Examines expectations of very young adults (age 18) and their mothers about financial support that parents might provide under a variety of situations. Results indicate a lower proportion of mothers expect to provide support than their children expect, with particularly large gaps between mothers and sons. Findings suggest disagreement and…
Descriptors: Adult Children, Attitude Measures, Expectation, Financial Support
Booth, Alan, Ed.; Crouter, Ann C., Ed.; Shanahan, Michael J., Ed. – 1999
This book contains 17 papers devoted to the following four aspects of the transition to adulthood: effects of alterations in the structure of opportunity; effects of prior experiences in the family; effects of prior experience in the workplace; and career development and marriage formation during a period of rising inequality. The following papers…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Adolescents, At Risk Persons, Beliefs