Mom, Can You Help Me With My Resume?: Intensive Parenting and the Post-College Job Search

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Abstract

Many parents of millennials (born between 1981 and 1998) who have fostered a close and supportive parent-child relationship through intensive parenting practices have watched their children graduate from college and enter an economically tumultuous world. Millennials have remained in close contact with their parents throughout college and even beyond. Despite the copious amount of research on social class, social networking, and intensive parenting of children and college students, few scholars have sought to understand whether an intensive parenting style impacts parents’ likelihood to help their children after their children reach adulthood. This paper examines two types of intensive parenting: concerted cultivation and helicopter parenting, and the association between those parenting behaviors and parental help in the post-college job search.

Author

• Valerie Adrian, Clackamas County