Abstract
Recent national data indicate that increasing numbers of adult children continue to live or return to live in their parents' homes. Although a substantial amount of research has been directed toward understanding how the presence of young children affects parents' marital relationships, little attention has been paid to the effects of the presence of adult children on elderly parents' relationships. In the present study a random sample of 677 elderly residents of the Boston metropolitan area was used to examine this issue. Contrary to expectations, the analysis indicated that the presence of adult children had no effect on elderly parents' marital conflict, even when age, educational attainment, health, and gender were controlled. An analysis of data on respondents sharing a residence with an adult child showed that marital conflict was strongly related to the frequency of parent-child conflict.
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