title: Parenthood and Leaving Home in Young Adulthood.
abstract: With increases in nonmarital fertility, the sequencing of transitions in early adulthood has become even more complex. Once the primary transition out of the parental home, marriage was first replaced by nonfamily living and cohabitation; more recently, many young adults have become parents before entering a coresidential union. Studies of leaving home, however, have not examined the role of early parenthood. Using the Young Adult Study of the 1979 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (n= 4,674), we use logistic regression to analyze parenthood both as a correlate of leaving home and as a route from the home. We find that even in mid-adolescence, becoming a parent is linked with leaving home. Coming from a more affluent family is linked with leaving home via routes that do not involve children rather than those that do, and having a warm relationship with either a mother or a father retards leaving home, particularly to nonfamily living, but is not related to parental routes out of the home.
authors.affiliation: Brown University, University of Maryland, 2737 Devonshire PL, NW, Washington, DC 20008, USA.
authors.forename: Frances K
authors.initials: FK
authors.lastname: Goldscheider
authors.affiliation: Department of Family Science, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA.
authors.forename: Sandra L
authors.initials: SL
authors.lastname: Hofferth
authors.affiliation: National Center for Health Statistics, Hyattsville, MD 20782, USA.
authors.forename: Sally C
authors.initials: SC
authors.lastname: Curtin
keywords: Nestleaving; Parent-child relationships; Parenthood; Transition to adulthood