The presence of a help pattern between parents and their married children has been established. This paper seeks to determine the effects of four factors upon parental aid to married children: residential propinquity, length of the child's marriage, occupational stratum, and sex of the child. Important findings include: (1) the verification of Litwak's statement that residential distance need not inhibit the giving of financial aid and gifts; (2) the use of indirect means of financial help, such as gift-giving, by the young wife's parents; and (3) the independence of the young working-class male from his parents when he is compared with the other three sex stratum groups.
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Bert N. Adams (1964) studied this question.