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| Within-family differences in mothers' support to adult children in black and white families | | Author(s) | J Jill Suitor, Jori Sechrist, Karl Pillemer |
| Journal title | Research on Aging, vol 29, no 5, September 2007 |
| Pages | pp 410-435 |
| Keywords | Mother ; Family relationships ; Children [offspring] ; White people ; Black people ; Comparison ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Data collected from a sample of 157 Black and 394 White older women in greater Boston are used to explore within-family differences in mother-to-child support. High rates of differentiation in both black and White families were found. Within-family analyses revealed more similarities than differences in the effects of adult children's characteristics or mothers' likelihood of providing support. For both groups, mothers were most likely to provide support to children who had fewer resources, greater need, and who provided their mothers with support. Children's health problems were better predictors of support among Black than White mothers, whose children's gender played a larger role in White than Black mothers' provision of support. However, both groups of mothers favoured daughters and children with poor health. In sum, these patterns provide little support for the argument that family solidarity is substantially more important in explaining intergenerational exchanges in Black than White families. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-080121203 A |
| Classmark | SRM: DS:SJ: SS: TKA: TKE: 48: 7T |
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