Gender Differences in Expectations for Filial Responsibility

Seelbach, Wayne C.

doi:10.1093/geront/17.5_part_1.421

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“…This concurs with Seelbach's (1977Seelbach's ( , 1978 findings that when older people become more vulnerable, they expect more in the way of filial responsibility and they get more, and that this applies to women more than men. However, this study indicated that these responses are individualized depending on the perceived needs of the surviving parent.…”

Section: Widowhoodsupporting

confidence: 87%

How Adult Children Respond to Role Transitions in the Lives of Their Aging Parents

Remnet

1987

Educational Gerontology

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This study explored ways adult children respond to role transitions in the lives of their aging parents and the preferences of these adult children for educational activities that would enhance their abilities to respond to future parental transitions.The sample consisted of 29 adult children who were working full time outside the home and had identified themselves as responsible for the current or future care of at least one parent 65 years or older who was still living independently in the community. Data were obtained from personal interviews conducted by the researcher using a semistructured interview guide with closed and open-ended questions.The adult children identified several significant parental role transitions: divorce, grandparenthood, retirement, and widowhood. In order to enhance their abilities to handle future transitions in the lives of their aging parents, these adult children identified the need for information in three content areas: communication skills, normal and abnormal aging, and available community resources. Also, they clearly preferred obtaining information in ways that would fit into their busy schedules, including regular meetings of professional organizations and social service clubs, journals and magazines, and public television and radio.

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Section: Widowhoodsupporting

confidence: 87%

How Adult Children Respond to Role Transitions in the Lives of Their Aging Parents

Remnet

1987

Educational Gerontology

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“…Parental expectations for help follow a different dynamic. Financial support is considered to be the responsibility of the government rather than the offspring (Seelbach, 1977). Request for housing is the most frequent referral problem that agencies handle (Simos, 1973), because feelings run strongly against doubling up in an adult child's household (Murrey, 1973).…”

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Intergenerational Issues in Long Term Planning

Foulke

Alford-Cooper

Butler

1993

Marriage & Family Review

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“…Filial responsibility represents a normative dimension of intergenerational relations and can be defined as the degree to which younger family members expect to provide help and support to ageing parents, or are committed to performing family roles and meeting family obligations (Bengtson and Roberts 1991;Seelbach 1977Seelbach , 1984. The intergenerational solidarity-conflict model has for several decades been an influential theoretical framework for understanding how family relations in western contexts are affected by demographic and socio-cultural change, focusing in particular on the adult child-ageing parent dyad.…”

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Exploring Intergenerational Relations in a Multi-cultural Context: The Example of Filial Responsibility in Mauritius

Hillcoat‐Nallétamby

2010

J Cross Cult Gerontol

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The purpose of this study is to explore attitudes towards filial responsibility amongst dyads of parents and young adult children using qualitative data from Mauritius, and to draw on the intergenerational solidarity-conflict and ambivalence frameworks to see whether they provide relevant interpretive tools for understanding these attitudes in a multi-cultural society. The study shows that although both generations agree that younger kin should support parents in later life, their motives vary: parents' attitudes reflect norms of obligation, children those of reciprocity; parents want autonomy and independence, but are ambivalent about expectations of future support. Both generations think providing support will be mediated by past parent-child relationships, socialization experiences, gender expectations and cultural tradition. The study suggests that attitudes towards filial responsibility are influenced by a broad set of mechanisms, which can be equated with concepts of structure, function, association, consensus and norm, as well as conflict and ambivalence.

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Gender Differences in Expectations for Filial Responsibility

Cited by 51 publications

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How Adult Children Respond to Role Transitions in the Lives of Their Aging Parents

How Adult Children Respond to Role Transitions in the Lives of Their Aging Parents

Intergenerational Issues in Long Term Planning

Exploring Intergenerational Relations in a Multi-cultural Context: The Example of Filial Responsibility in Mauritius

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