Adult child-parent relationships: On the problem of classification

摘要

Family and intergenerational research in recent decades has been marked with an increase in scientific interest in the problem of adult child-parent relationships and their role in individuals’ lives across their life span. With the increasing number of studies on this issue, the need for a classification of adult child-parent relationships seems to be extremely relevant. This paper gives a brief introduction to the evolution of child-parent relationships in adulthood and makes an attempt to define the main features of adult child-parent relationships which could be used as a basis for their possible classification.