SOCI 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Baby Boomers, Socioeconomic Status, Millennials
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Book review on fff (due on november 23rd) How can we understand the transiional changes of leaving home for family dynamics. What are the consequences for families of economic instability in the phenomena of returning home . Evaluate contemporary research on the child-launching stage of family development. Explore macro and micro-level factors shaping this process. Discuss the implicaions for intergeneraional relaions and mid-life family development. Table 10. 1: proile of late baby boomers and generaion x and y at ages 20-29 (powerpoint) Dramaic transformaion in the child-launching phase of family development. Young people live at home for economic reasons(vs. caring for parents) Generaion y now living with parents and staying in school longer. Tendency to boomerang back home: 28% of women aged 20-29, 33% of men aged 20-29. Semi-autonomous living(goldscheider and davanzo, 1985: physical separaion but coninued emoional or inancial dependence, home-leaving is a mulidimensional process, remaining home ater 19-20: home staying or intergeneraional co-residence, ater 25: mature co-residency .
