How Families Still Matter
Subtitle: A Longitudinal Study of Youth in Two Generations
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: November 4, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 238
ISBN-13: 9780521009546
Subjects: Family & relationships; Social research & statistics; Social Science; Generations; Sociology; United States; Sociology - Marriage & Family; Social Science / General; Family; Sociology - General; Longitudinal studies; Parental influences
First sentence: The birth of each new generation in a family is the occasion for celebration and rejoicing, speculation about the past and the future.
Description: "How Families Still Matter casts doubt on much conventional wisdom about family decline during the last decades of the twentieth century. The authors draw from one of the longest-running longitudinal studies of families in the world - the Longitudinal Study of Generations, conducted at the University of Southern California - to discover whether parents are really less critical in shaping the life orientations and achievements of youth than they were a generation ago. Using survey data collected from as early as 1971, they compare the influence of parents (on self-confidence, values, and levels of achievement) on the Baby Boomer generation with that of Baby Boomer parents on their own Generation X children. The findings will be surprising to many readers."--Jacket.