Intergenerational Exchanges in Older Populations

Grundy, Emily

doi:10.1007/978-1-4020-5973-5_10

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“…Intergenerational exchange refers to the reciprocal provision of support between elder parents and their adult children (or grandchildren), such as domestic help, financial aid, and informal caregiving (Grundy, 2007). In rural China, most of the older people depend on their adult children for economic and instrumental support because of the scarcity of public old‐age security, of formal elder care, and of nursing home facilities (Leung, 1997; Wu & Schimmele, 2008).…”

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Age and intergenerational exchange among older parents in rural China

Zuo

2011

Int J Soc Welfare

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Zuo D, Wu Z, Li S. Age and intergenerational exchange among older parents in rural China Int J Soc Welfare 2011: 20: S30–S46 © 2011 The Author(s), International Journal of Social Welfare © 2011 Blackwell Publishing Ltd and the International Journal of Social Welfare. This study examined life‐course differences in the flow of intergenerational exchange in rural China. The analysis used longitudinal data and growth curve models to decompose the distinct effects of age and cohort on the receipt and provision of economic and instrumental support among elder parents and their adult children. The study highlighted the importance of examining the age trajectories of intergenerational support according to cohort‐specific experiences and family life stage. There was a net age effect on intergenerational exchange, with elder parents tending to receive more support from children over time. However, there were indeed significant cohort effects that represented socio‐historical variation in the relationship between aging and intergenerational exchange. The study also observed gender differences in the flow and growth of intergenerational exchange.

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Age and intergenerational exchange among older parents in rural China

Zuo

2011

Int J Soc Welfare

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“…Due to the accelerated conditions of late-capitalist life in wealthy countries, families have increasingly de-emphasized deep, multi-generational living arrangements and connections, in favor of disjointed and geographically dispersed lives. 23 The extent to which people know less about their parents, spend less time living with all family members, and have only limited interaction with those possessing ancestral information, strongly impacts what people know about their family histories. The proliferation of divorce and divided families in wealthy countries commonly limits access to entire branches of children's family trees, wherein they would be able to learn about their ancestors.…”

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Legacies of Legibility: Genealogical Story-Telling as an Echo of State Power

Williams

2023

Journal of Family History

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Genealogy necessitates historical records, the majority of which derive from government sources, despite families’ “private” lives. State records weren’t intended to service future family historians, but were a means to state-formation and power. Consequently, records used by family historians reflect statist concerns, not state subjects’. Genealogy databases and censuses were analyzed to determine how many derive from state sources. An individual, anecdotal example focused upon a US Census record illuminates genealogical insight and misunderstanding; despite relevance, interpretation problems confront family historians. Genealogical research is limited by modernity's governmentality and the state gaze, impacts generally under-acknowledged by the average family historian.

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