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Burton, Linda – Family Relations, 2007
This article presents an emergent conceptual model of childhood adultification and economic disadvantage derived from 5 longitudinal ethnographies of children and adolescents growing up in low-income families. Childhood adultification involves contextual, social, and developmental processes in which youth are prematurely, and often…
Descriptors: Economically Disadvantaged, Low Income Groups, Children, Family Environment
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Piercy, Kathleen W.; Chapman, Jeffery G. – Family Relations, 2001
A qualitative study was done to investigate how adult children become caregivers to older parents with functional impairments and what roles their own children adopt in their family's care arrangement. Interviews revealed five influences on children and grandchildren's adoption of caregiver roles: expectations; family rules; religious training;…
Descriptors: Adult Children, Caregiver Role, Child Role, Family Caregivers
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Watson, Mary Ann – Family Relations, 1981
Studies alternate custody arrangements: joint custody and father custody. Interviews indicate that joint custody decisions are an outgrowth of prior parent-child relationships. The children interviewed asserted that their best interests are served when they participate in the custody decision-making. (Author/JAC)
Descriptors: Child Role, Child Welfare, Court Litigation, Decision Making
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Spanier, Graham B.; Glick, Paul C. – Family Relations, 1981
Studied separation, divorce, and the postponement of marriage which have nearly doubled the number of adults who keep up a home without a spouse since 1970. Assesses teenage marriages as particularly unstable. Discusses other variables including children's sex, mother's education level, custody, and remarriage. (Author/JAC)
Descriptors: Child Role, Demography, Divorce, Family Characteristics