Mediating Factors of Family Structure and Early Home-leaving: A Replication and Extension of van den Berg, Kalmijn, and
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Mediating Factors of Family Structure and Early Home‑leaving: A Replication and Extension of van den Berg, Kalmijn, and Leopold (2018) Michel Herzig1 Received: 20 November 2018 / Accepted: 11 November 2019 © Springer Nature B.V. 2019
Abstract Young adults from non-intact families are more likely to leave the parental home at an early age than are young adults from intact families. While this association is well established in the existing literature, the underling mechanisms remain puzzling. In a recent investigation with prospective data from the SOEP (van den Berg et al. in Eur J Popul 34(5):873–900, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10680-017-94611), a large share of the effect of family structure on early home-leaving remained unexplained, in particular for stepfamilies. This study draws on longitudinal data from the German Family Panel (pairfam) to replicate and extend the analyses of van den Berg et al. (Eur J Popul 34(5):873–900, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1007/s1068 0-017-9461-1). The quality of the stepfather–child relationship, as well as parental monitoring and support, is added to existing analyses. However, an extended assessment of social resources does not seem to substantially help explain the association between family structure and early home-leaving. Keywords Transition to adulthood · Leaving home · Family structure · Mediation analysis
Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (https://doi.org/10.1007/s1068 0-019-09544-x) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. * Michel Herzig [email protected] 1
Institute for Sociology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU Munich), Konradstr. 6, 80801 Munich, Germany
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1 Introduction Due to an increase in divorce rates since the 1970s, more children and young adults in Western societies grow up in single-parent households or stepfamilies (Allan et al. 2001; Sobotka and Toulemon, 2008).1 According to official statistics, 73% of all underage children in Germany lived with married parents, 18% with a single parent, and 9% with unmarried cohabiting parents in 2014.2 Between 2004 and 2014, the share of children living with married parents declined significantly from 78% to 73% (BPB 2016, p. 54) with an ongoing downward trend. On the international level, research has documented that children not growing up with both biological parents experience many steps of the so-called transition to adulthood at earlier ages than their counterpart from original families. Studies have shown that adolescents with alternative family backgrounds expedite romantic and sexual relationships (Cavanagh et al. 2008; Valle and Tillman 2014; Zito and de Coster 2016) and have a higher risk of early parenthood (Amato and Kane 2011; Fomby and Bosick 2013; Wu and Martinson 1993). Additionally, it is a well-established fact for Canada, the USA, and some Western European countries (e.g., Germany, Great Britain, and Sweden) that young adults growing up in alternative family constellations
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