Abstract
Interview data for 96 eighth graders from intact familes with at least two children were used to examined effects of family size, sibling spacing, and gender on young adolescents' relationships with their parents. Results of multivariate analyses of variance indicate that, as measured by adolescents' reports of quantity of parental contact and nature of parental discipline, mother-child relationships in early adolescence are influenced by child's gender. In contrast, adolescents' relationships with their fathers are a function of sibling spacing. The possibility that both family structure and childrearing practices are determined by attitudes toward parenthood is discussed. A distinction is made between family size and household size to account for the lack of family size effects in these analyses.
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