TY  - JOUR
A1  - Bijleveld, Catrien
A1  - Huschek, Doreen
A1  - Liefbroer, Aart C.
T1  - Parental criminality and entry into parenthood among sons and daughters
JF  - Advances in life course research
N2  - In this article, we examined to what extent parental offending influences the timing of entry into parenthood of children. Based on a literature review, we hypothesized that children of delinquent parents would be more likely to enter into parenthood at a relatively young age, and that part of that association could be explained by differences between children of delinquent and non-delinquent parents in the timing of entry into marriage and in their own delinquent behaviour. Using data from a five-generation study of high risk families in the Netherlands, we found that parental delinquency increases the chance of early childbearing among daughters, but not among sons. Among sons, parental delinquency increased son's delinquency, suggesting that parental delinquency has different consequences for the life courses of their sons and daughters.
KW  - Intergenerational effects
KW  - Offending
KW  - Parenthood
KW  - Demographic transitions
KW  - Delinquency
Y1  - 2016
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.alcr.2016.03.006
SN  - 1569-4909
SN  - 1879-6974
VL  - 28
SP  - 81
EP  - 90
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - Oxford
ER  -