Multidimensional Acculturation and Identity Re-Formation Processes Among South Sudanese Refugee as Emerging Adults in the United States

Numerous studies have shown that parental divorce increases children’s divorce risk. Weextend this literature by assessing how parental divorce on both sides of a (potential) coupleaffects their partnering dynamics. Specifically, we explore 1) whether there is parental divorcehomogamy and whether the parental divorce of both partners adds to the dissolution of both 2)cohabiting and 3) married unions. Our analyses use event history models on high-qualityFinnish Census Panel data covering 28,021 cohabiting and marital partnerships between ages18 and 45. We found substantial parental divorce homogamy in that children who experiencedparental divorce are 13% more likely to cohabit with and 17% more likely to marry a fellowchild of divorce. Moreover, contrary to evidence from the United States and Norway, ourfindings for Finland support an additive, not a multiplicative, effect. Here, both partners’parental divorce increases their offspring’s dissolution risk by 20% for cohabitation and 70%for marriage compared to couples where neither of their parents are divorced. We conclude thatparental divorce on both sides of a couple affects family formation processes at multiple stages.In Finland, these effects are notably less than previously found in the United States. This islikely because cohabitation and separation are wide-spread and socially accepted in Finlandand an expansive welfare state buffers the socio-economic consequences of divorce.

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Disability and the Transition to Adulthood in the United States

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190093167.013.17 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Anthony R. Bardo ◽

Ashley Vowels

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Emerging Adults ◽

Transition To Adulthood ◽

Independent Living ◽

Medical Model ◽

The United States ◽

Life Transitions ◽

Major Life ◽

Cumulative Inequality ◽

The Life Course

This chapter provides a synthesis of the literature on the transition to adulthood among emerging adults with a disability in the United States. The life course paradigm was used to frame the discussion in the context of demographic trends and contemporary circumstances regarding major life transitions in the areas of education, employment, independent living, and sex, marriage, and parenthood. A critical assessment of the current state of the literature from a social versus medical model of disability in these central life domains provides a foundation from which sociologists can explore processes of cumulative inequality embedded in the relatively uncharted lives of transition-age youth with a disability.

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Perceived Mother–Father Dyad Parenting Typologies Across Four Regions in the United States

Journal of Family Issues ◽

10.1177/0192513x211055114 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 0192513X2110551

Author(s):

Melanie Stearns ◽

Erica Szkody ◽

Cliff McKinney

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Emerging Adults ◽

Parenting Style ◽

Parenting Styles ◽

Online Survey ◽

The United States ◽

The West ◽

Mothers And Fathers ◽

Paternal Parenting ◽

Very High

Although much research has investigated parenting styles, few studies have examined parenting across regions of the United States. The current study used a nationwide sample to examine perceived maternal and paternal parenting in four regions of the United States: Northeast, South, Midwest, and West. Participants included 1080 emerging adults who answered questionnaires regarding their perceptions of maternal and paternal parenting styles using an online survey. In all regions, the largest profile indicated a parenting style of High Authoritative/Authoritarian and Moderate Permissive mothers and fathers. Similarly, all regions indicated profiles that were High or Very High Authoritarian mothers and fathers. All regions except the West had a profile with High Authoritative mothers and High or Very High Authoritarian fathers. The Northeast, South, and West also had unique profiles found only in those regions. Thus, results indicate similarities as well as distinct differences in parenting style across regions of the United States.

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Brief Report

10.1093/oso/9780190057008.003.0011 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 181-196

Author(s):

Sean G Massey ◽

Richard E. Mattson ◽

Mei-Hsiu Chen ◽

Melissa Hardesty ◽

Ann Merriwether ◽

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Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Sexual Orientation ◽

Emerging Adults ◽

Emerging Adult ◽

The United States ◽

Cross Sectional Survey ◽

Cross Sectional ◽

Trend Study ◽

Attraction Behavior ◽

Survey Responses

This trend study analyzed 9 years (2011–2019) of cross-sectional survey responses to Klein’s Sexual Orientation Grid to explore changes in sexual orientation among emerging adult college students. Categorical regression models based on ordinal responses revealed that participants were moving away from exclusive heterosexuality on attraction, behavior, and identity subscales at a rate of approximately 6% per year. This trend augments for women after 2014, coinciding with increased advocacy efforts related to U.S. marriage equality, but attenuates for men. Participants’ race also related to variations in sexual orientation: Black participants were less likely than White participants to identify as exclusively heterosexual, whereas the pattern reversed for Asian participants relative to White participants. These findings suggest that changes in sexual orientation are occurring among emerging adults in the United States, potentially in response to changing social and political contexts, but these changes are more pronounced in women and Black emerging adults.

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Introduction

10.1093/oso/9780197586693.003.0001 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-7

Author(s):

Tisha A. Duncan ◽

Allison A. Buskirk-Cohen

Keyword(s):

Higher Education ◽

United States ◽

Instructional Practices ◽

Emerging Adults ◽

The United States ◽

Practical Application ◽

Knowledge And Skills

It is the hope that as one begins to learn more about emerging adults, ages 18 to 29, there will be a shift in seeing them through a more positive lens to discover how their creativity, curiosity, and need for ensuring equality and fairness for all can be beneficial. This book aims to provide those who work in higher education in the United States with the knowledge and skills needed to help students succeed through integrating a developmental lens and practical application of the research. Voices and perspectives from various disciplines share research, instructional practices, and resources to work holistically with emerging adults academically, socially, and emotionally.

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“Guard Your Heart!”

Millennial Missionaries ◽

10.1093/oso/9780190875961.003.0006 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 127-150

Author(s):

Katherine Dugan

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Emerging Adults ◽

Family Life ◽

The United States ◽

The Body ◽

Sexual Ethics ◽

Humanae Vitae ◽

Theology Of The Body ◽

The Us ◽

Personal Ethics

This chapter examines missionaries’ romantic relationships and argues that the way these young adults date, marry, and procreate shapes their position in the US Catholic landscape. These emerging adults develop wide-ranging and gendered interpretations of chastity. They discipline themselves and their co-missionaries to follow Catholic dictums articulated in Humanae Vitae and Pope John Paul II's Theology of the Body More than personal ethics, however, this chapter posits that missionaries’ practices of Catholic romance are part of their pro-life politics. How and why these Catholic millennials embody the transitions from singlehood to family life proclaims their proud, dynamically orthodox Catholic alternative to contemporary sexual ethics in the United States.

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