Mothers, Children, and Cohabitation: The Intergenerational Effects of Attitudes and Behavior
研究父母对非婚同居的态度与子女同居行为之间的相互影响，发现父母态度影响子女行为，同时子女行为也会改变父母态度。
We investigate the reciprocal relationships between parents'attitudes and their children's behavior by focusing on attitudes toward nonmarital cohabitation and experience with cohabitation and marriage. We test hypotheses predicting that parental attitudes influence their children's behavior and that children's behavior alters their parents 'attitudes. We use data from an intergenerational panel study of mothers and their children to specify models testing these predictions. Our findings support the hypotheses that (I) parental attitudes toward cohabitation influence children 's behavior after controlling for children's own attitudes and (2) children's behavior influences their parents' attitudes. The empirical results also shed light on gender differences in the links between attitudes and behavior and possible causal links between aggregate level trends in family formation attitudes and behavior