Hong Kong Chinese daughters’ intergenerational caregiving obligations:

Holroyd, Eleanor

doi:10.1016/s0277-9536(00)00406-8

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“…This confirms similar findings from Yip et al (2009) in Hong Kong. Like them, we suspect that the absence of Bmercy killing^in China is in part due to the traditional Chinese family structure and a continued cultural emphasis on filial piety (Holroyd 2001). Essentially, the younger generation in China is less transient than, say, their American counterparts, thus more present to provide aid to older caregivers and monitor and treat their early signs of depression (Thornton and Lin 1994).…”

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“…This is exacerbated by the prevalence of arranged marriages in rural China (Fincher 2014), public discrimination based on gender, and the tendency of women to marry men of higher social status (Thornton and Lin 1994). Traditional Chinese family structure is hierarchical, imbued with a Confucian emphasis on patriarchal authority and filial piety (Holroyd 2001;Thornton and Lin 1994). Men have final authority on most family issues, particularly financial decisions, although they may give the illusion of power to their spouses (Ho 1987;Yick and Agbayani-Siewert 1997).…”

Section: Intimate Partner Violence In Chinamentioning

confidence: 99%

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Homicide–Suicide in China: an Exploratory Study of Characteristics and Types

Densley

Hilal

Li³

et al. 2016

Asian Criminology

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This study explores 63 homicide-suicide cases that include two or more homicide victims, in the People's Republic of China. This is the first study to examine homicide-suicide in the Chinese context, following calls to develop a research strategy outside of the USA and Europe. Data are derived from a content analysis of Chinese news sources from 2000 to 2014. Findings show homicide-suicide offenders are likely to be married males living in rural cities who kill their intimate partners and/or children inside a residence using knives. Intimate partner conflict and extramarital affairs are precipitating factors in almost half of the incidents. Patterns of homicide-suicide in China are comparable to those in high-income countries, except that firearms are not the primary means in China and there is no evidence of Bmercy killing^among older persons, as described in western homicide-suicide studies. Findings are related to the social and economic structure of Chinese society. Clinical and policy implications include the need for greater transparency and a nationwide homicide and suicide tracking system in China, stricter domestic violence laws, postmortem studies of the brains of homicide-suicide offenders, and psychological autopsies on homicide-suicide perpetrators.Keywords Homicide-suicide . Murder . Suicide . Intimate partner violence . ChinaEvery year, 800,000 people commit suicide worldwide, the equivalent of one suicide every 40 s (World Health Organization 2014). Another 430,000 people are victims of intentional homicide (United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime 2013). The literature on suicide (i.e., intentional self-inflicted death) and homicide (i.e., the deliberate and unlawful killing of another person), as separate, albeit related, phenomena, is extensive Asian Criminology

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Section: Intimate Partner Violence In Chinamentioning

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Homicide–Suicide in China: an Exploratory Study of Characteristics and Types

Densley

Hilal

Li³

et al. 2016

Asian Criminology

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“…It is the foundation that guides an individual's behaviours and experiences, including caregiving roles (van Willigen and Lewis 2006;Braudy and Long 1999). Filial responsibility is part of the cultural schema about appropriate behaviour towards parents (Holroyd 2001), internalized through socialization, often measured as an individual attitude and conceptualized as attitudes about duty or obligation or more generalized attitudes towards support for aging parents.…”

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Filial Caregivers; Diasporic Chinese Compared with Homeland and Hostland Caregivers

Chappell

Funk

2011

J Cross Cult Gerontol

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This paper examines the distinctiveness and similarities of diasporic Chinese Canadian caregivers to older adults compared with Hong Kong Chinese and Caucasian Canadian caregivers. Particular interest lies in whether filial responsibility, actual caregiving behaviours, health and a variety of structural characteristics cluster in ways that suggest these three groups of filial caregivers are distinctive. Data were collected using face-to-face interviews. The findings suggest that the caregivers participating in this study cluster into types that roughly approximate their original cultural groupings. Interestingly, however, the diasporic or immigrant Chinese appear more similar to homeland (Hong Kong) than hostland (in this instance Caucasian) Canadian caregivers - all diasporic Chinese were originally, or their ancestors were, from Hong Kong. Chinese Canadians are not necessarily in the middle in terms of caregiving behaviours, but rather show variability depending on the behaviour examined. In addition, these findings confirm past research that Western culture does not have clear and explicit norms of filial responsibility to the same extent as does Chinese culture.

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“…Hong Kong citizens thus behave in a pragmatic way toward their elderly parents, such that people financially incapable or emotionally unprepared for filial piety practice would surrender their filial responsibility (Chow, 1997). Filial piety thereby becomes more rhetoric than real practice in Hong Kong (Holroyd, 2001;Ting & Chiu, 2002). As such, many people in Hong Kong would hold the government responsible for elder care, even though they are aware of the norm of filial piety (Holroyd, 2001).…”

Section: Relevance To Other Places In the Worldmentioning

confidence: 99%