Young Adults' Marital and Family Attitudes

Abstract

Only a few small studies have examined the effects of recent parental divorce on young adults, including how it influences attitudes toward marriage and divorce. Results from studies using parental marital status as a predictor of young adults' attitudes have been inconsistent. Other studies have suggested that parental and family conflict would be stronger predictors of young adults' marital and family attitudes. The main hypothesis of this study was that parental and family conflict would be stronger predictors of young adults' altitudes than would parental marital status. Randomly sampled, never-married, White young adults (ages 17-23) formed two groups: those with recently divorced parents (n = 231) and those with married parents (n = 213). All responded to structured tele- phone interviews. While level of family conflict did not predict any of the five attitudes measured, level of parental disagreement pre- dicted four of the live attitudes. Parental marital status predicted two of the attitudes.

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