How Families Still Matter

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"How Families Still Matter casts doubt on much conventional wisdom about family decline during the last decades of the twentieth century. The authors draw from one of the longest-running longitudinal studies of families in the world - the Longitudinal Study of Generations, conducted at the University of Southern California - to discover whether parents are really less critical in shaping the life orientations and achievements of youth than they were a generation ago. Using survey data collected from as early as 1971, they compare the influence of parents (on self-confidence, values, and levels of achievement) on the Baby Boomer generation with that of Baby Boomer parents on their own Generation X children. The findings will be surprising to many readers."--Jacket.

subjects: Relation entre generations,  Etudes longitudinales,  Longitudinal studies,  Baby boom generation,  Motivation d'accomplissement chez les jeunes,  Familienpolitik,  Parents,  Gezin,  Parental influences,  Continui˜teit,  Generation X - Etats-Unis,  Families,  Generation du baby-boom - Etats-Unis,  Motivation d'accomplissement chez les jeunes - Etats-Unis - Etudes longitudinales,  Generations,  Leeftijdsgroepen,  Generations - Etats-Unis - Etudes longitudinales,  Generation du baby-boom,  La˜ngsschnittuntersuchung,  Generation X,  Verandering,  Famille - Etats-Unis - Etudes longitudinales,  Reussite,  Achievement motivation in youth,  Motivation,  Generation,  Influence,  Parents - Influence - Etats-Unis - Etudes longitudinales,  Generation X.,  Attitude,  Valeur (Philosophie),  Soziale Situation,  Famille,  Ouder-kind-relaties,  Family, united states,  Achievement motivation