We request funds to continue a prospective, longitudinal, adoption study of transitions to adulthood. The proposed research aims to increase knowledge about the important familial determinants of children's social and economic well being as they make the transition from adolescence into young adulthood. Specific hypotheses address individual and familial influences on educational attainment, occupational attainment, and family-formation choices, and how the quality of early family relationships shapes adult parent-child relationships. We address these questions in the context of a longitudinal adoption design, which offers an opportunity to carry out powerful tests of socialization and social-psychological theories. The adoption design allows us to test familial determinants of adult outcomes independently of genetic effects. Further, we capitalize on the resources of the Colorado Adoption Project (CAP), a long-term, longitudinal adoption study of 245 adoptive families and 245 nonadoptive families. The CAP children, their siblings, and their home environments have been assessed repeatedly since infancy using a broad, multivariate battery of social, environmental, and behavioral measures. We propose to continue longitudinal assessment of the CAP probands, their siblings, and their parents, as the CAP children continue to make the transition into young adulthood (reach age 25-30). The proposed research is innovative, both in the field of behavioral genetics and the field of social demography, in that it brings behavioral genetic methods to bear on social demographic phenomena and on the study of life-course developmental processes. This study promises to advance our understanding of how family factors influence adult outcomes, and to enrich socialization theories and models of life-course development.

Agency
National Institute of Health (NIH)
Institute
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development (NICHD)
Type
Research Project (R01)
Project #
5R01HD036773-09
Application #
7069511
Study Section
Social Sciences, Nursing, Epidemiology and Methods 4 (SNEM)
Program Officer
King, Rosalind B
Project Start
2003-08-06
Project End
2008-05-31
Budget Start
2006-06-01
Budget End
2007-05-31
Support Year
9
Fiscal Year
2006
Total Cost
$325,506
Indirect Cost
Name
University of Colorado at Boulder
Department
Genetics
Type
Other Domestic Higher Education
DUNS #
007431505
City
Boulder
State
CO
Country
United States
Zip Code
80309
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Hawke, Jesse L; Stallings, Michael C; Wadsworth, Sally J et al. (2008) DeFries-Fulker and Pearson-Aitken model-fitting analyses of reading performance data from selected and unselected twin pairs. Behav Genet 38:101-7
Bricker, J B; Stallings, M C; Corley, R P et al. (2006) Genetic and environmental influences on age at sexual initiation in the Colorado Adoption Project. Behav Genet 36:820-32

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