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| Kinship ties and solitary living among unmarried elderly women in Chile and Mexico | | Author(s) | Susan de Vos |
| Journal title | Research on Aging, vol 22, no 3, May 2000 |
| Pages | pp 262-289 |
| Keywords | Older women ; Single persons ; Living alone ; Living with others ; Family relationships ; Chile ; Mexico. |
| Annotation | Using census microdata, this article describes living arrangements among unmarried older women in Chile and Mexico, two rather different Latin American countries, around 1990. In both countries, most unmarried older women lived with kin. Even those without children still usually lived with relatives, often nephews, nieces or siblings. Those older women who never married nor had any children had a higher likelihood of co-residence than counterparts who never married but did have children or who married but did not have children. Residence with relatives may well decline noticeably in Chile and Mexico in the next 25 to 50 years among unmarried older people. That certainty has been the case in more developed countries. The question could be how to retain valuable kin ties, while respecting increased autonomy. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-001023205 A |
| Classmark | BD: SQ: K8: KA: DS:SJ: 7WA: 7TY |
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