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A Generation at Risk - Growing Up in an Era of Family Upheaval (Paperback, New Ed)
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A Generation at Risk - Growing Up in an Era of Family Upheaval (Paperback, New Ed)
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Just what do we know about the current generation of young
Americans? So little it seems that we have dubbed them Generation
X. Coming of age in the 1980s and '90s, they hail from families in
flux, from an intimate landscape changing faster and more
profoundly than ever before. This book is the first to give us a
clear, close-up picture of these young Americans and to show how
they have been affected and formed by the tremendous domestic
changes of the last three decades. How have members of this
generation fared at school and at work, as they have moved into the
world and formed families of their own? Do their struggles or
successes reflect the turbulence of their time? These are the
questions A Generation at Risk answers in comprehensive detail.
Based on a unique fifteen-year study begun in 1980, the book
considers parents' socioeconomic resources, their gender roles and
relations, and the quality and stability of their marriages. It
then examines children's relations with their parents, their
intimate and broader social affiliations, and their psychological
well-being. The authors provide rare insight into how both familial
and historical contexts affect young people as they make the
transition to adulthood. Perhaps surprising is the authors' finding
that, in this era of shifting gender roles, children who grow up in
traditional father-breadwinner, mother-homemaker families and those
in more egalitarian, role-sharing families apparently turn out the
same. Also striking are the beneficial influence of parental
education on children and the troubling long-term impact of marital
conflict and divorce--an outcome that prompts the authors to
suggest policy measures that encourage marital quality and
stability.
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