Childhood Living Arrangements and Adult Children’s Relations with their Parents

Lye, Diane N.; Klepinger, Daniel H.; Hyle, Patricia Davis; A, Nelson

doi:10.2307/2061744

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“…In contrast to the findings for parental divorce, the results here do not generally show negative effects. In most studies, there are no significant differences between widowed and married parents in terms of social contacts (Aquilino 1994a; Grundy and Shelton 2001;Lye, Klepinger, Davis Hyle, and Nelson 1995;Tomassini et al 2004). Because there are many more widows than widowers, most of the research on widowhood is based on women (Lopata 1996).…”

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Gender Differences in the Effects of Divorce, Widowhood and Remarriage on Intergenerational Support: Does Marriage Protect Fathers?

2007

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There are well-known gender differences in the form and content of extended family relationships. This paper examines how gender differences vary across the life course.More specifically, it is examined how fathers and mothers differ in the support they receive from children, and how this depends on whether the parents divorce, become widow(er)s, enter a new relationship, and have new children. The guiding hypothesis is obtained from the notion that women are 'kinkeepers.' This notion implies that the position of fathers vis-à-vis mothers would be worsened outside of marriage.Analyses are based on 8,040 parent-child dyads obtained from a new nationally representative survey from the Netherlands. Positive evidence is obtained for the hypothesis. Although fathers already receive less support from children than mothers while married, this difference is larger when fathers are not married. This is not only true for a divorce that occurred early in the life of the child, but also for 'late' divorces. Moreover, during the stage of widowhood, gender differences are increased as well. Remarriage and new children have further negative effects and these effects are also stronger for fathers than for mothers.3

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Gender Differences in the Effects of Divorce, Widowhood and Remarriage on Intergenerational Support: Does Marriage Protect Fathers?

2007

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“…In Great Britain, about 50 per cent of children have weekly face-to-face contact with parents (Grundy and Shelton, 2001). In the United States, this is about 40 per cent (Lye et al, 1995). When comparing to Germany, we need to combine face-to-face and phone contact.…”

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Educational Inequality and Family Relationships: Influences on Contact and Proximity

Kalmijn¹

2005

European Sociological Review

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In modern society, education has become a major element of stratification and differen tiation. This paper examines how educational differences across and within family relationships affect the content of the relationship, thereby focusing on proximity and contact between parents and adult children and between siblings. Hypotheses are developed about why education should matter, using theoretical arguments about preferences and constraints. The hypotheses are tested using a large new survey on family relationships in the Netherlands, the Netherlands Kinship Panel Study. Family relationships are pooled into one dataset which is analyzed using multilevel regression. The results show sharp but nonlinear educational effects on proximity and distance, although most of the educational effect on contact is indirect, via distance. Educational differences within family relationships lead to greater distances and less contact, confirming the classic mobility thesis, but the effects are generally weak and the effects on contact are indirect. Implications of the findings for the different theoretical perspectives on family relationships are discussed.

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“…Age is obviously important both because older age may be associated with support needs which might prompt more frequent contact, and because the youngest of those in our age range might still have children at home (especially in southern Europe as age at leaving the parental home is high). Previous studies have shown that divorced parents, particularly divorced fathers, have fewer contacts with children than their married and widowed counterparts (Barrett and Lynch 1999; Grundy and Shelton 2001;Lye et al 1995); therefore marital status of the parents was also included in the analysis. Number of living children is another important indicator, as clearly higher parity older people have a greater pool of children with whom they can meet.…”

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Contacts between elderly parents and their children in four European countries: current patterns and future prospects

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Frequency of contacts with the family is an indicator of the strength of intergenerational exchange and potential support for older people. Although the availability of children clearly represents a constraint on potential family support, the extent of interaction with and support received from children depends on factors other than demographic availability alone. This study examined the effects of socio-economic and demographic variables on weekly contacts with children in Great Britain, Italy, Finland and The Netherlands using representative survey data which included information on availability of children and extent of contact. Our results confirm the higher level of parent adult-child contact in Italy than in northern European countries, but levels of contact in all the countries considered were high. Multivariate analysis showed that in most countries characteristics such as divorce were associated with a reduced probability of contact between fathers and children; in Finland this also influenced contact between mothers and children. Analyses are also included of possible future scenarios of contact with children that combine the observed effects of the explanatory variables with hypothetical changes in population distribution.

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Childhood Living Arrangements and Adult Children’s Relations with their Parents

Cited by 68 publications

References 35 publications

Gender Differences in the Effects of Divorce, Widowhood and Remarriage on Intergenerational Support: Does Marriage Protect Fathers?

Gender Differences in the Effects of Divorce, Widowhood and Remarriage on Intergenerational Support: Does Marriage Protect Fathers?

Educational Inequality and Family Relationships: Influences on Contact and Proximity

Contacts between elderly parents and their children in four European countries: current patterns and future prospects

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