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This article investigates the impact of childhood family structure on the timing of home-leaving in the United States....This research builds on previous work by examining the influence of a wider array of childhood living arrangements on home-leaving and by exploring the differential impact of family structure on the transitions to semiautonomy marriage and residential independence....The results...show that childhood family structure has a substantial impact on both the timing of first home-leaving and the pathway out of the parental home. For both men and women exposure to most forms of nonintact family structure increases the probability of an early transition to residential independence and decreases the likelihood of leaving to attend school. Among the nonintact family types adoption and nonparental living arrangements exert the strongest influence on home-leaving. Data are from the 1987-1988 National Survey of Families and Households. (EXCERPT)
William S. Aquilino (Fri,) studied this question.