How Does Re-Nesting Affect Families

Austin Griffith
John Conger
Family Interaction
1 April 2014
The “Re-Nesting” Effect in Families The re-nesting effect is something that is being seen more frequently in our generation. Re-Nesting or Coresidence is usually between an adult child and a parent, stepparent, or grandparent, and is when multiple adult generation live together. In my first article concerning this subject called Young African-American Multigenerational Families in Poverty: Quality of Mothering and Grandmothering: In this article researches examined parenting practices in a sample of 99 young, low-income, African-American multigenerational families, using home-based observations of grandmothers and young mothers interacting separately with young children. The approach used in studying the behavior in the mothers and grandmothers parenting was the risk and resilience approach. The end results of this study were that mothers and grandmothers did not differ in the mean level of the quality of their parenting practices. And that living together did not effect the mother and grandmothers relationship in any noticeable way.
In my second article, Composing Maternal Identities: The Living realities of Mothers with young adult-Children in twenty-first century Australia the researcher, Jennifer Jones,
In this article the researchers describe female adult-child experiences after moving back home and explain the process and consequences involved in moving back home. The primary data sources are 1 ½ hr long semi structured interviews with fifteen female adult children who had returned home. The researchers found that the reason the adult-children move home if for the hopes of securing a better quality of life in the long run. Researchers also found that re-nesting is cyclical rather than linear. And that the effect that re-nesting has