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Emptying the Nest and Parental Well-Being: An Analysis of National Panel Data
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Panel data from a national random sample are used to investigate the effects of children leaving home on parental well-being. The is associated with significant improvements in marital happiness for all parents, regardless of parent's or children's characteristics. Overall life satisfaction improves significantly only under two conditions: when there is frequent contact with nonresident children or when there were young teens in the 1983 household. For both measures of parental well-being, the positive effects of the empty nest appear to be strongest immediately after the children leave. These findings, coupled with the high levels of post-launching contact, suggest that while parents experience a modest post-launch honeymoon, the parental role remains important to parental well-being.
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Metadata
- Authors
- White, L., & Edwards, J. N.
- Venue
- American Sociological Review
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 1990-04
- Volume
- 55
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 235
- ISSN
- 0003-1224 (ISSN-L)
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- W2313703673
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- 182
- References
- 1
- FWCI
- 12.76
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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