Are You Ready For It? Content Analysis of Emerging Adults' Readiness to Become a Parent

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Authors

Carson Dover¹ , Savannah Van Der Werf¹ , Brian Willoughby¹

1. Brigham Young University

Conference / event

Winter 2024 Fulton Conference, April 2024 (Provo, United States)

Poster summary

Using a large sample of emerging adults from the U.S., we found that there are a variety of ways in which emerging adults conceptualize their readiness to become parents. Specifically, we found that emerging adults cite financial, romantic, internal, ambiguous, and stability factors when thinking about when they want children.

Keywords

Emerging adulthood, Parenthood, Content analysis

Research areas

Humanities and Social Sciences

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Competing interests

No competing interests were disclosed.

Data availability statement

The datasets generated during and / or analyzed during the current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.

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Copyright © 2024 Dover et al. This is an open access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.