Beyond Deficit-Filling and Developmental Stakes: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives on Parental Heritage

Attitude Similarity in Three-Generation Families: Socialization, Status Inheritance, or Reciprocal Influence?

“…Theories of developmental aging (Bengtson and Kuypers, 1971;Hess and Waring, 1978;Moss and Abramowitz, 1982;Baltes, 1979;Rossi, 1980) suggest that parents and children have different investments in family relationships and different sources of power in family interaction as they move through the life course. For example, children in late adolescence may share few of the adult statuses that their parents hold and may be facing the developmental tasks of independence and differentiation from parents2 (Erickson, 1950).…”

Stake in Farm and Family: A Two Generation Perspective

“…Several possible explanations for this pattern of asymmetrical relationships between parents and adult children have been advanced. Some have suggested that parents view the relationship with the younger generation as an extension of themselves (Bengtson & Kuypers, 1971), whereby parents achieve their goals vicariously through the lives of their children (Moss & Abramowitz, 1982). Others have noted that some parents fear losing the years that they have invested in their children (Hagestad, 1981) and worry about their increasing need for their children as they age (Knipscheer & Bevers, 1985).…”

“…Parents are highly invested in the relationship with their children, not only because of issues of generativity but also because they are farming with their children and passing along a family heritage. Moss and Abramowitz' (1982) idea of parental heritage is a useful addition to generational stake in addressing the question of heritage. Parental heritage "refers to parents' identification of existing parental psychological or material assets that are sufficiently valued to be transmitted to offspring" (Moss & Abramowitz, 1982, p. 360).…”

“…Generational stakes are reciprocal investments of two generations (Moss & Abramowitz, 1982). The older generation seeks an extension into the future via an affinity with the younger generation, while the younger generation pursues the freedom to stake out its social territory (Bengtson & Kuypers, 1971).…”

Das erhöhte Risiko der Ehescheidung

“…dazu etwa Ro senthal 1987), einem schon klassischen Thema der (Familien-) Soziologie (vgl. Moss/Abramowitz 1982), für welches sich in den letzten Jahren ver stärkt auch die Familientherapie unter einer MehrGenerationen-Perspektive interessiert. Kontrovers diskutiert wird bei der intergenerationalen Tradie rung der Eheinstabilität vornehmlich die Frage, welches denn eigentlich die "Transmissions-Rie men" seien, welche die Übertragung bewerkstel ligen.…”