Parents Influence In Parenthood

As parents and children have a strong connection during the childhood, parents continue to influence the lives of their children in adulthood. Parents have always played a large role in the mate selection of their children. It happens that they can approve or even choose the mate for adult children. The readiness of children to take into account the opinion of their parents when choosing a partner can be influenced by the power of closeness and devotion to family members. There is a difference between preferences of children and what they consider to be parental preferences. It has always been in all cultures that parents make attempts to influence the selection of the mate by their children. They try to arrange their marriages or even try

Past research has shown that those who marry younger than average (about 27 for men and 25 for women) have higher rates of marital instability… and that couples who perceive greater parental approval have higher relationship stability and quality. Therefore, parental approval was hypothesized to increase with age. Past research has also shown that when looking at individuals over age 30, parents may disapprove of the couple’s relationship because the marriage would take that child away from the parents when the dependency has likely been created. From that research it was hypothesized that parental approval would eventually begin to decrease as age increased” (Malnar, 29). It means that if a child stays with parents longer, the connection between parents and children becomes stronger and they become dependent upon each other and, consequently, parents won’t like their children get

The analysis showed that “even though length of the courtship was shown to positively correlate with marital quality in other studies there was no significant relationship in this study to connect length of courtship with parental approval of the adult child’s engaged relationship. Length of the relationship was not significant for males or females or when predicting mother’s approval or father’s approval” (Malnar, 30).

“When predicting mother’s and father’s approval for both female and male individuals, the female models had a larger slope than the males, meaning that as autonomy from family-of-origin increases, parental approval increases at a faster rate for females than males” (Malnar, 31). It means that even if the mother and father consider the autonomy of their male child, they more take into consideration different variables like education, job, or emotional maturity. It may be harder for females to get the autonomy from their families because males are naturally granted autonomy from their