Does Child Gender Predict Older Parents’ Well-Being?

Pushkar, Dolores; Bye, Dorothea; Conway, Michael; Wrosch, Carsten; Chaikelson, June; Etezadi, Jamshid; Giannopoulos, Constantina; Li, Karen; Tabri, Nassim

doi:10.1007/s11205-013-0403-y

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“…According to another study, satisfaction with social relations was not only influenced by parental status, but also by the gender of the offspring. Older parents who had daughters only reported more satisfying relations and greater social support compared to older nonparents and older parents with sons only (Pushkar et al, 2014).…”

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confidence: 80%

“…Interestingly, having at least one daughter was more important than family size was (Grundy and Read 2012). Elderly parents who had daughters only also reported greater life satisfaction, more satisfying relationships with their children, and greater social support satisfaction compared to childless people and parents of sons only (Pushkar et al, 2014). The findings of these studies show that simple binary parental status is often insufficient in explaining the differences, as child-related factors play a strong role in the quality of parents' social relations.…”

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confidence: 80%

“…Life satisfaction is often based on the presence of intimate family ties, in particular ties with the partner and children (Moor et al, 2013). Elderly nonparents had more relations with friends and fewer family intimate relations compared with elderly parents (Pushkar et al, 2014). Childless women were more likely to see their friends frequently, when compared with mothers, and married women without children were the most likely to have at least weekly contacts with neighbours, but overall more elderly parents had at least weekly contact with their relatives (Wenger et al, 2007).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Nonparents had more potential diverse support networks, as they were not limited to parent-child relations like parents were, and their networks could be characterised by stronger links to extended kin and friends (Albertini & Kohli, 2009;Schnettler & Wöhler, 2016). Nonparents had more links to friends and fewer intimate family relationships (Pushkar et al, 2014).…”

Section: Do Elderly People's Social Network Differ On the Basis Of Pmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Childlessness and social support in old age

Křenková

2019

Finnish Yearb Popul Res

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This structured literature review attempts to provide a comprehensive overview of literature on the topic of childlessness and social support in old age. In total, 33 articles that were published between January 2000 and July 2018 were reviewed. Articles to some extent covered topics of nonparents and their social support, social contacts, their social networks, and what are other socio-demographic factors that are possibly influencing these. There was no overall consensus on reviewed topics, but some findings emerged more frequently than others. Nonparents have smaller, but more diverse social networks, they seem to have less frequent social contacts with family, but they see friends and neighbours more often. Most articles depict childless as a vulnerable group with higher rates of loneliness. Childless elderly generally do not lack social support in forms of household help, yet their social networks appear to be less capable of providing intense care tasks. Among factors that also affect all above belong the cultural context, marital status, gender of the given individual, their age, and health status. Interestingly, within group of parents the family size, gender of children, and their proximity also play an important role in social support provision. This review also advices on a further study and development of the topic in the future.

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Section: Do Elderly People's Social Network Differ On the Basis Of Pmentioning

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Childlessness and social support in old age

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2019

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“…This question is motivated by the observation that, because of the stronger ties between a mother and a daughter, maternal grandmothers in Japan are more 1 Studies on the interaction between childcare from grandmothers and the labor supply of mothers include Posadas and Vidal-Fernández (2012), Aparicio-Fenoll and Vidal-Fernandez (2015), Ho (2015), Rupert andZanella (2018), andGarcia-Moran andKuehn (2018). 2 An exception is Pushkar et al (2014), who report that older parents of only daughters are more satisfied with life and have more intimate family relations than older childless adults and parents of only sons.…”

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confidence: 99%