| Summary: | A study was conducted to examine whether nontraditional gender roles and attitudes among parents are associated with later life outcomes of children. Data were drawn from a longitudinal study of 471 parents and their adult children. Very little evidence was found to indicate that mothers' participation in the labor force, fathers' participation in household tasks, and parents' gender role attitudes had negative or positive effects on children's well-being. However, children of nontraditional parents were less likely to live with parents, had slightly poorer relationships with their fathers, and tended to have nontraditional gender role attitudes. Furthermore, there was a greater likelihood that daughters of nontraditional parents would cohabit. In all of these cases, however, the associations were modest.
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