Objective This article examines the transmission of older women's relationship quality with
their mothers and fathers to their relationship quality with their own adult children in midlife …

Although closeness is a necessary element in relationships, its role in later-life marriages is
less clear, with some finding benefits of greater closeness and others finding costs. To begin …

Relationships with parents have significant implications for well‐being throughout the
lifespan. At midlife, these ties are situated within both developmental and family contexts that …

We employed gerontological and feminist frameworks in an investigation of normative late-
life mother-daughter relationships. Building on previous research, we used data from a …

Using a social learning perspective and the spillover assumption of the family systems
perspective, the current study sought to examine the assumptions that remarriage quality is …

In this paper, we draw upon insights from the developmental psychological literature on
younger families to investigate within-family differences in parent–adult child relations in …

Objectives. Studies of intergenerational relationship quality often include one or two
generations. This study examined within-family differences and similarities or transmission …

Mothers and daughters maintain strong positive relationships despite interpersonal
tensions. This study examined the ways in which older mothers and their adult daughters …

Theory and research on intergenerational relations emphasize the salient role that mothers
and their adult children play in one another's lives. However, little is known about how …

Researchers have documented the interrelatedness of parent–child and marital
relationships during the early parenting years, but little is known about how these two family …