title: Parents and their young adult children: transitions to adulthood.
abstract: This paper considers how parents are affected by and play a role in the lives of their young adult children. The years during which young people make the transition to adulthood has changed significantly in recent years--this transition now takes place over a longer period of time. We describe how young people experience these years; how they affect their parents and parent-child relationships; and how this time period is experienced by vulnerable youth.
authors.affiliation: School for New Learning, DePaul University, Chicago, USA.
authors.forename: Idy Barasch
authors.initials: IB
authors.lastname: Gitelson
authors.forename: Dana
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: McDermott
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D016901:Intergenerational Relations; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D016487:Parenting / Q000523:psychology* / Q000639:trends