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| Retirement effects on parent-adult child contacts | | Author(s) | Maximiliane E Szinovacz, Adam Davey |
| Journal title | The Gerontologist, vol 41, no 2, April 2001 |
| Pages | pp 191-200 |
| Keywords | Family relationships ; Parents ; Children [offspring] ; Social contacts ; Retirement ; Geographical distance ; Social surveys ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Data from the US National Survey of Families and Households were used to examine whether parents' retirement influences their contacts (visits, telephone, or letter) with adult children outside the household. The sample consisted of parent-adult child dyads, where parents were aged 55-75 and adult children resided outside the household at both waves (2,153 parent-adult child dyads, based on reports from 792 parents). Retirement has no significant effect on telephone contacts. Retired parents maintain frequent visits with children. For children living within 10 miles, mothers' retirement is associated with fewer visits and fathers' retirement with more visits. This trend varies by number of children, length of retirement and child's gender. For children living more than 10 miles away, retired mothers decrease visits with childless children, whereas retired fathers increase visits with childless children. The authors attribute these findings to the gender-specific salience of child contacts for retirees. They suggest that future research addresses children's and parents' expectations for post-retirement contacts. (KJ/RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-010622213 A |
| Classmark | DS:SJ: SR: SS: TOA: G3: RJ: 3F: 7T |
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