A Study of Parents' Support for Adult Children and the Factors Affecting it in Tehran

In recent years, demographic changes have led to increasing the duration of child-parenting and a complication of vertical links between generations. The purpose of this article was to investigate the level of parental support for adult children in different dimensions and the factors affecting it. The statistical population of the survey was people aged 18 years and older in Tehran who had at least one living parent and were not co-residence. A thousand samples from 30 districts of Tehran were selected by multi-stage cluster sampling, and the findings showed that parents' support for adult children is at a high level and is not the same in different dimensions. Advice, interest in personal life, and emotional support are reported at a high level and instrumental support and financial support are at a much lower level. Mothers' support in all dimensions except financial support has been significantly higher than fathers. Parental support is affected by parental age, parental marital conflict, parent-adult conflict, adult child support for parents, and the number of children. In addition, the findings confirmed the theories of intergenerational solidarity, altruism, and contingency.