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The long-term rewards of parenting
— older adults' marital history and the likelihood of receiving support from adult children | | Author(s) | Jenny de Jong Gierveld, Pearl A Dykstra |
| Journal title | Ageing International, vol 27, no 3, Summer 2002 |
| Pages | pp 49-69 |
| Keywords | Parents ; Marital status ; Family relationships ; Children [offspring] as carers ; Longitudinal surveys ; Netherlands. |
| Annotation | Support provided to older people by their non-resident children is investigated using data for 4,494 respondents, a random sample of Dutch men and women born in the years 1903 to 1937 from the 1992 "Living arrangements and social networks of older adults survey" (NESTOR-LSN, 1992). The findings, based on those with activities of daily living (ADL) and/or instrumental ADL (IADL) limitations and living children (n=2,728), point out that ever-divorced men, regardless of whether they have repartnered, receive only marginal help from their children. Among those without new partners, 8% of ever-divorced men and 22% of the ever-divorced women cite children as sources of help, while this is so for 45% of ever-widowed men and 53% of the ever-widowed women. Multivariate analyses revealed that health, educational level, number of children and travel distance are significant predictors of support from children, in addition to the significant and important contribution of marital history, partner status and gender. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-021111203 A |
| Classmark | SR: SLM: DS:SJ: P6:SS: 3J: 76H |
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