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作者

来源

HOUSING STUDIES,Vol.33,Issue2SI,P.284-298

语言

英文

关键字

Young adults; intergenerational support; siblings; housing pathways; tenure; ambivalence; ADULT CHILDREN; YOUNG-ADULTS; FAMILY TIES; AMBIVALENCE; ENGLAND; WELFARE; HOME; PROPERTY; BRITAIN

作者单位

[Heath, Sue] Univ Manchester, Sch Social Sci, Manchester, Lancs, England. Heath, S (reprint author), Univ Manchester, Sch Social Sci, Manchester, Lancs, England. E-Mail: sue.heath@manchester.ac.uk

摘要

Financial support from parents has become critical to the capacity of many single young adults to attain and sustain independent housing in the United Kingdom. Utilising data from a qualitative study of early housing pathways, this paper applies Luscher's theory of ambivalence in a context previously unexplored via this framework, analysing how participants talked about competing claims between siblings for finite parental resources in support of independent living. Most expressed faith in the assumed fairness of parental behaviours in providing support whilst often constructing themselves as more responsible' or more deserving' than their siblings. Whilst parental support was routinely made available regardless of recipients' current housing tenure, there was nonetheless a sense that support for owner occupation fell into a distinct category of assistance, reinforcing notions of tenure prejudice. Given ongoing dependency on family support, participants were largely resigned to these disparities, regarding them as integral to the ambivalent nature of inter- and intragenerational family relationships.