ABSTRACT

This chapter examines whether young people continue to benefit from their parents’ support once they have made the transition away from home, and if so, whether the likelihood of receiving support will in any way be influenced by the presence of a third generation, their own grandparents. Our focus is on a particular group of young people who make up the last of a successive line of generations of grandparent, parent and child, and whose parents are aged in their forties and fifties.