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This finding looks at the relationship between young adults' marital status and the likelihood that they would turn to their parents at a time of crisis.

Compared with peers who were married, young adults who were cohabiting were less likely to name their parents as the persons they would turn to if a crisis occurred.

Sample or Data Description
Data from the first wave of the 1987/88 National Survey of Families and Households on 3,809 young adult respondentsaged 19-30 who have at least one living parent (biological or step) and report on a variety of exchanges of support with their parents.

Source
"Cohabitation and Exhanges of Support"
Eggebeen, David J.
Social Forces Vol. 83, Number 3. March, 2005. Page(s) 1097-1110.

FindingID: 7559