Life Course Status and Exchanges of Support Between Young Adults and Parents

Bucx, Freek; Wel, Frits van; Knijn, Trudie

doi:10.1111/j.1741-3737.2011.00883.x

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“…Married offspring typically receive less support than unmarried offspring (Sarkisian & Gerstel, 2008). Parents of young children typically receive more support from their own parents (Bucx et al, 2012). In this study, most of the grown children who had children of their own were married.…”

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“…Moreover, in lower SES families grown children have children of their own at younger ages. Offspring who have children are likely to receive more parental support (Bucx, van Wel, & Knijn, 2012). Lower SES grown children may have these children as single parents, rather than with a spouse (Gibson-Davis & Rackin, 2014), and their parents may help with these children.…”

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“I'll Give You the World”: Socioeconomic Differences in Parental Support of Adult Children

Fingerman

Kim

Davis

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J of Marriage and Family

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Research has shown that parents with higher socioeconomic status provide more resources to their children during childhood and adolescence. The authors asked whether similar effects associated with parental socioeconomic position are extended to adult children. Middle-aged parents (N = 633) from the Family Exchanges Study reported support they provided to their grown children and coresidence with grown children (N = 1,384). Parents with higher income provided more emotional and material support to the average children. Grown children of parents with less education were more likely to coreside with them. Parental resources (e.g., being married) and demands (e.g., family size) explained these patterns. Of interest is that lower income parents provided more total support to all children (except total financial support). Lower income families may experience a double jeopardy; each grown child receives less support on average, but parents exert greater efforts providing more total support to all their children.

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Section: Offspring Factors That Elicit Supportmentioning

confidence: 99%

“I'll Give You the World”: Socioeconomic Differences in Parental Support of Adult Children

Fingerman

Kim

Davis

et al. 2015

J of Marriage and Family

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“…The presence of individuals in the sample of various ages and at different life stages was useful for the purpose of including individuals with different levels of involvement in providing caregiving to an ageing parent and in the family exchange structure. In fact, intergenerational exchanges are strongly influenced by the stage of life the individual has reached (Bucx et al 2012). For example, those belonging to the sandwich generation (Grundy and Henretta 2006), i.e.…”

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Intergenerational solidarity between parents and adult children: a qualitative research among cohabiting and married children in Italy

Santoro

2014

International Review of Sociology

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The objective of this article is to compare the patterns of intergenerational solidarity between adult children who cohabit or are married and their own parents or their partner's parents through the analysis of 50 in-depth interviews. The research did not reveal any different behavioural patterns between cohabiting and married couples. Financial support provided by own parents or partner's parents and the presence of small children constituted positive factors which intensified the frequency of contacts and improved the quality of the relationship. In the event of illness of a parent, both the married and cohabiting couples provided assistance, especially when the illness was not disabling and there were no other kin relatives. When this was not possible, a private caregiver was hired or close family members provided assistance. Only those respondents who cohabited with a partner awaiting divorce were less willing to maintain contacts with their partner's parents. The presence of a family formed by previously married partners and the old age of the parents of the latter compromised the quality of the relationship and the willingness to provide assistance.

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“…The widowed are also more likely to live with their unmarried descendants than with those who are married if they are in need of care (Seltzer and Friedman, 2014). Support from their children is decisive for avoiding the institutionalisation of elderly persons who are dependent, even more so if they are widowed (Noël-Miller, 2010); this tends to be understood within a framework of reciprocal solidarity existing over the course of the life-cycle (Bucx, van Wel and Knijn, 2012). b) Other authors have questioned the idea that intergenerational co-residence is a response to parental dependency, as what appears to be more important are the needs of the adult children.…”

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Formas de convivencia de las personas mayores

Doblas¹

2024

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ResumenEste trabajo analiza por qué están cambiando en España las formas de convivencia de las personas mayores. En su planteamiento teórico distingue entre dos realidades básicas: la independencia residencial, propia de quienes comparten un hogar bipersonal con la pareja y de quienes viven en solitario, frente a la convivencia con familiares de otras generaciones. A nivel empírico utiliza una estrategia metodológica cualitativa, cuya técnica de producción de información es el grupo de discusión, y de análisis, la Teoría Fundamentada. La hemos aplicado sobre un perfil específico de actores implicados en este proceso social, las personas mayores que viven solas. Nuestros resultados profundizan en los motivos por los cuales la convivencia intergeneracional no deja de ceder terreno a la independencia residencial. Key words AbstractThis article examines why living arrangements among the elderly are changing in Spain. Although this process has been going on for decades, it remains under-examined from a sociological point of view. Our theoretical framework distinguishes between two basic residential forms among the elderly population: Residential independence, which refers to those living in two-person households with a partner, as well as those living alone; and intergenerational cohabitation, in which the elderly live with family members of other generations. We have used a qualitative methodological strategy, using discussion groups as a technique to generate data, and grounded theory as our approach for data analysis. Our analysis is focused on a specific group involved in this social process: the elderly who live alone. Our findings reveal a number of subjective reasons for the continuing growth of residential independence among the elderly in detriment to intergenerational cohabitation. Cómo citarLópez Doblas, Juan (2018 IntroduccIónDesde hace tiempo todos los países occidentales vienen registrando las mismas pautas de cambio familiar. La nupcialidad ha descendido, se han elevado la edad al matrimonio y a la maternidad, han aumentado los divorcios, las uniones de hecho y los nacimientos de mujeres no casadas, ha caído la fecundidad, etc. Todo ello se enmarca en la Segunda Transición Demográfica, en la que los valores culturales desempeñan un papel esencial (Lesthaeghe, 2010). Con respecto a los hogares, objeto de nuestro estudio, los cambios también son enormes. Está reduciéndose su tamaño medio y creciendo el porcentaje de los habitados por una persona sola o una pareja sin hijos, mientras disminuyen los de estructura compleja y la convivencia intergeneracional . En el extranjero, muchos autores destacan a las personas mayores como protagonistas de estos cambios, habiendo impulsado una profunda transformación en sus estilos de vida y sus relaciones familiares. En España, sin embargo, las investigaciones sociológi-cas no han reconocido apenas este hecho, pese a que sus modos de convivencia muestran las mismas tendencias que en otras sociedades occidentales (tabla 1). Marco teórIcoEntre los modos de vida de la...

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Life Course Status and Exchanges of Support Between Young Adults and Parents

Cited by 84 publications

References 53 publications

“I'll Give You the World”: Socioeconomic Differences in Parental Support of Adult Children

“I'll Give You the World”: Socioeconomic Differences in Parental Support of Adult Children

Intergenerational solidarity between parents and adult children: a qualitative research among cohabiting and married children in Italy

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