Patrilocal, Matrilocal or Neolocal? Intergenerational Proximity of Married Couples in China

Gruijters, Rob J.; Ermisch, John

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“…Nearly half of older parents have adult children living nearby in the same neighborhood or the same county (Lei et al, 2015). Among non-coresident married couples, most of them live close to husbands’ or wives’ parents in the same community or district (Gruijters & Ermisch, 2019). The cultural value of familism continues to hold family members together and live their lives interdependently.…”

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Children’s Relative Living Proximity and Intergenerational Support to Older Parents in China

Bao

2021

Res Aging

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Although research has recognized the influence of geographic proximity on intergenerational support in Chinese families, the effect of siblings’ geographic proximity remains unexplored. Guided by the within-family differences approach, this study uses data from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study to examine how the relativity of children’s and their siblings’ geographic proximity is associated with children’s support to older parents and how the association differs by child gender. Results show that living relatively farther among siblings is associated with providing less economic support and have less contact with parents, but this negative effect is less prominent on sons’ economic support and daughters’ contact with parents. Having siblings living at the same distance also affects children’s support behaviors. The findings reveal that support responsibilities could be differentially distributed by children’s relative living proximity among siblings and indicate the importance of considering sibling influences when studying intergenerational support in Chinese families.

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Children’s Relative Living Proximity and Intergenerational Support to Older Parents in China

Bao

2021

Res Aging

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“…Daughters are now as likely as sons to provide financial support to parents in China, at least in urban areas (Hu 2017; Lei 2013; Xie and Zhu 2009). Parents living with sons is still dominant, but there are signs that norms of patrilocal residence are eroding (Gruijters and Ermisch 2019; Chen 2005; Chen and Short 2008; Xie and Zhu 2009). To my knowledge though, no studies have assessed if the growth of sonless families contributed to such broader changes.…”

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Another Gendered Demographic Dividend: Adjusting to a Future without Sons

Allendorf¹

2020

Population & Development Rev

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Sonless families may pose a gendered demographic dividend. As fertility declines, families with only daughters are likely to grow. In turn, patriarchal family systems may weaken when many families are unable to engage in patriarchal practices. I examine some of these theorized dynamics in India. Sonless families did grow as fertility declined, reaching 10 percent in India as a whole in 2015 and approaching 20 percent in states with earlier fertility declines. I also identify a substantial influence of children's sex on mothers' expectations of old-age support. Using panel data from the India Human Development Survey, I compare women's expectations after they had children to earlier expectations when they did not yet have children. Women with sons kept or further embraced patriarchal expectations that a son would provide support. Sonless mothers largely gave up patriarchal expectations, turning to daughters or away from children altogether.

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“…Instead, it is argued that economic development and social change shift the needs and capacities of both parent and child and, subsequently, the co-residence patterns we observe (Xu et al, 2014). For example, it has been shown that the child's needs tend to override parental needs in determining whether a child co-resides with his or her parent in urban China (Gruijters and Ermisch, 2018;Zhu and Xie, 2017). This appears to contradict studies conducted in more rural, traditional parts of China (Gruijters and Ermisch, 2018;Logan and Bian, 1999;Zhang, 2004).…”

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“…For example, it has been shown that the child's needs tend to override parental needs in determining whether a child co-resides with his or her parent in urban China (Gruijters and Ermisch, 2018;Zhu and Xie, 2017). This appears to contradict studies conducted in more rural, traditional parts of China (Gruijters and Ermisch, 2018;Logan and Bian, 1999;Zhang, 2004). Following this line of argument suggests that explaining differences between European and Chinese intergenerational co-residence requires an understanding of how needs and capacities are shaped by structural, macro-level context.…”

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Intergenerational co-residence during later life in Europe and China

Emery

Dykstra

Djundeva

2019

Chinese Journal of Sociology

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Individuals in China are much more likely than Europeans to live with their adult children during later life. In this paper, we examine the extent to which this holds true across the diverse contexts and circumstances faced by Europeans and Chinese. We use comparative data from the Survey for Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe and the China Family Panel Studies to examine cross-national differences in whom adults in later life choose to live with. We find that in rural China and among urban migrants there is a tendency to live with higher-educated children, whilst among urban Chinese and Europeans, individuals live with those with lower education levels. We also find that in Europe there is only a small preference for living with male adult children, whilst across China this preference is much stronger. However, we also note that this preference is weakest in urban China. These findings indicate strong differences in co-residence patterns between China and Europe, but also some similarities between specific subpopulations. We explain these differences and similarities using a social policy framework.

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Patrilocal, Matrilocal or Neolocal? Intergenerational Proximity of Married Couples in China

Cited by 9 publications

References 42 publications

Children’s Relative Living Proximity and Intergenerational Support to Older Parents in China

Children’s Relative Living Proximity and Intergenerational Support to Older Parents in China

Another Gendered Demographic Dividend: Adjusting to a Future without Sons

Intergenerational co-residence during later life in Europe and China

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