Parental influences on partner relationships

Aart C. Liefbroer

Chapter Chapter 16 in Research Handbook on Partnering across the Life Course, 2025, pp 192-202 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Parents influence the partner relationships of their children in a myriad of ways and throughout their children’s life course. This chapter offers a framework to study these influences. Parents’ expectations, behaviours, resources and genes influence their children’s partner relationships via three processes. They influence the preferences that their children have about partner relationships, the resources children have to realize these relationships, and the opportunity structures that children face and that may facilitate or hamper the initiation, maintenance and dissolution of these relationships. These key mechanisms are described and illustrated using recent empirical research. In addition, attention to variation in the strength of parental influence across family structures and across countries is discussed.

Keywords: Family influence; Partner relationship; Intergenerational transmission; Parental resources; Socialization processes (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781803923376
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