When Your Children Marry

ôThis engaging and highly readable book takes a familiar adage and uses it to ask central questions about intergenerational relationships: how are adult children's relations with parents transformed by marriage and through what process does this occur? Skillfully weaving material from in-depth interviews with mothers, adult sons, and adult daughters, Merrill presents evidence for traditional patterns but also suggests that recent trends toward gender equality may have led to more parallel relations with adult sons and daughters.