Waiting Until They Leave Home

Abstract

This study examines the experiences of young adults whose parents separated when they were 18 years or older, and uses the conceptual framework of Family Social Capital for interpretation. Family support, parent-child relationships, family fragility, inverted parenting, and kin keeping were significant factors for this group. They reported low levels of support, a sense throughout childhood of family vulnerability, and demands for parenting parents and kin keeping after their parents separated. Father-son relationships often improved after parental separation. The chronicity of family unhappiness for this group is compared with the experiences of offspring whose parents separated when they were children.

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