Impact of the older generation’s support on fertility in Russia

Sharin, V.I.; Kulkova, Inna

doi:10.19181/1561-7785-2019-00014

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“…Modern publications discuss often the problem of contrasting the traditional Russian families where the grandparents played the main role in children upbringing to occidental "self-sufficient" families, including only parents and children (Ibragimova, 2007). The author accentuates, that contemporary Russian grandparents become more and more the "visiting governors, " or perform a sporadic recreation activity, together with economical support of the grandchildren (Sharin & Kul'kova, 2019). It indicates some new tendencies and transformation of interactions between old grandparents and their children and grandchildren.…”

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“…V. I. Sharin and I. A. Kul'kova (2019) determined three types of families: traditionala large family including many generations living together, where the grandmothers and/or grandfathers take about all care of children; a mixt type of family, where the grandparents live separately, but help their children if necessary, more often economically and ordinary type, when the old generation lives separately and mostly did not help to care and to educate their grandchildren.…”

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Images of the Elderly in Preschoolers and Their Parents

Naumova

Glozman

2021

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Introduction. The paper analyses the representations of old people by the preschoolers. The changing demographic situation of the society stimulates a study of contemporary relationship between generations. Some studies reveal stereotypes and discrimination of an old subject by small children. The nature of this phenomenon and factors influencing it are contradictory and not clear.The objective of the study is to reveal and to analyze interrelations between the elderly images in preschoolers with those of their parents. We supposed that the image of the elderly in older preschoolers depends on stereotyped parents’ representations of the elderly and on the quality and accessibility of child’s relationship with grandparents.Study design. 67 child-parents dyads including 67 preschoolers aged from five to six years (56.7% of girls and 43.3% of boys) and 67 parents aged from 23 till 59 years (85.1% of mothers and 14.9% of fathers) took part in the study. We used the method of projective drawing for children and a questionary together with association test for parents. The questionary was aimed to precise the social and demographic state of the parents and the ancestors, the type of the family from the point of view of participation of grandparents in the care and upbringing of children, relationship of children and grandparents and parents’ opinions about the need for participation of grandparents in children upbringing.Results. (1) The study of parents proved, that a positive or negative image of an old person is manifested via the dynamic system of health/disease, preservation or not preservation of functional abilities and life competence. A neutral image is represented through inclusion in the new state of a retired and an ancestor. (2) The study of children proved that the quality of communication with grandparents determines the emotional component in elderly and old subject image. A limited or absent communication results in emotionally neutral and personally not valuable image. (3) We did not reveal the influence of parents’ stereotyped images on children.Conclusions. (1) A positive aging images and an efficient communication of children with ancestors form a basis for positive image of elderly and of an old subject by small children. (2) Children experience of “sufficient” communication with grandparents actualizes predominantly the emotional aspect of communication in the image of an old subject. (3) Children with deficient communication with grandparents represent an image of an old subject as somebody else or nobody’ person, and accentuate psychophysiological deficits. (4) Preschoolers can have own representations of elderly not identic to parents or surrounding people or social stereotypes.

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Images of the Elderly in Preschoolers and Their Parents

Naumova

Glozman

2021

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“…In Russia extended families play a major role in childcare (Teplova, 2007). A study based on data from the 2004 and 2007 waves of the Generations and Gender Programme survey found that 40 per cent of childcare services were provided informally in households, mainly by grandparents, especially in poorer and rural families (Sukhova, 2011;Sharin and Kulkova, 2019). MC can be used to cover costs of state or private preschool childcare.…”

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Trying to Reverse Demographic Decline: Pro-Natalist and Family Policies in Russia, Poland and Hungary

Cook

Iarskaia‐Smirnova²,

Козлов³

2022

Social Policy and Society

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During the early 2000s governments in Russia, Poland and Hungary declared demographic crises and adopted pro-natalist programmes to increase fertility, as well as policies to support families with children. Our article compares their ‘flagship’ pro-natalist programmes: Russia’s Maternity Capital, Poland’s Family 500+, and Hungary’s enhanced earned income tax credit, all framed by governments’ neo-familialist discourses. We confirm these policies had limited impacts on fertility, finding that their most significant and disparate effects were instead on childhood poverty. Provision of preschool public childcare and parental leaves with levels of mothers’ employment across the cases were compared. We find no relationship between coverage of childcare institutions and employment rates of mothers with young children. Data show a weak relationship between length and compensation for parental leaves and maternal employment. We conclude that post-communist governments’ flagship pro-natalist incentives, family policies and traditionalist rhetoric have had limited effects in reversing demographic decline or in re-traditionalising contemporary women’s lives.

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Generations Attitudes from the Point of View of a Modern Primary School Age Child

Глозман

Naumova

2022

Cultural-Historical Psychology

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The work is aimed at studying the current attitude towards the ageing person by the generation of “digital childhood” in comparison with the expectations of representatives of the late-age generation. We assumed that, against the background of modern transformations of intergenerational traditions, we can expect descendants to recognize the preservation of the standard of ancestral behavior. 284 residents of Petropavlovsk- Kamchatsky were surveyed: 40 respondents from 57 to 80 years old and 122 child-parent dyads (children from 8,2 to 9.6 years old, parents from 27 to 61 years old). At the first stage, data were obtained from parents using the author's questionnaire allowing them to present their opinion about the real state of the relationship between children and their grandparents and the importance of (non-)participation of grandparents in the upbringing of their grandchildren. At the second stage, the analysis of the interviews in the focus groups of schoolchildren and a gerontological sample concretized attitudes towards a person of senior age and allowed independent experts to identify relevant categories (based on content analysis). At the third stage, options for reflecting the (non-)consent of the older generation with children's judgments were investigated. The results were evaluated on the Likert scale. It is shown that, despite the significant choice of children's attitude as condescending compassion, in the range of consent of the expected attitude, children's variants of continuity of preserving the experience of obligatory and valuable behavior of the grandparents are presented. The data obtained emphasize the problem of recognizing the uniqueness of the experience of each generational group as a source of generational solidarity and the basis of cultural adaptation to age.

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Impact of the older generation’s support on fertility in Russia

Cited by 4 publications

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Images of the Elderly in Preschoolers and Their Parents

Images of the Elderly in Preschoolers and Their Parents

Trying to Reverse Demographic Decline: Pro-Natalist and Family Policies in Russia, Poland and Hungary

Generations Attitudes from the Point of View of a Modern Primary School Age Child

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