Relationship Quality Between Older Fathers and Middle-Aged Children: Associations With Both Parties' Subjective Well-Being.

Objectives: Relationships between fathers and their children are salient to both parties throughout the life course. Yet little is known about how these ties may affect well-being in later life. This study examined the implications of aging fathers' and middle-aged children's perceptions of father-child relationship quality for their own and the other party's well-being.

Agreement between aging parent's bequest intention and middle-aged child's inheritance expectation.

Purpose: This study investigated discrepancies in expectations of aging parents and their middle-aged offspring regarding future inheritances.

Methods: Data from 327 older parent-adult child dyads were analyzed. Using multilevel models, we examined factors (e.

Discrepancies in reports of support exchanges between aging parents and their middle-aged children.

Objectives: This study investigated predictors of discrepancies in reports of 5 types of support that aging parents and their middle-aged children exchanged with one another. Predictors included structural factors, including needs and resources and dyadic characteristics, and psychological factors, including family obligation and investment in the relationship.

Methods: Participants included 337 dyads of parents (aged 59-96 years) and their children (aged 40-60 years).

Fatherhood and Men's Lives at Middle Age.

This paper uses data on 2,024 men who were followed through the third wave of the National Survey of Families and Households to examine the implications of fatherhood experiences for men's involvement in altruistic social activities at middle age. We find that middle-aged men (ages 45-65) who at some point in their lives become fathers are significantly more likely to have altruistically oriented social relationships and be involved in service organizations compared to men who have never become fathers. Furthermore, it appears that the defining aspect of the effect of fatherhood is the level of engagement with children while they are growing up.

Precursors of Young Women's Family Formation Pathways.

We used latent class analysis to create family formation pathways for women between the ages of 18 and 23. Input variables included cohabitation, marriage, parenthood, full-time employment, and attending school. Data (n = 2,290) came from Waves I and III of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health).