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| Parental marital disruption, family type, and transfers to disabled elderly parents | | Author(s) | Liliana E Pezzin, Robert A Pollak, Barbara Steinberg Schone |
| Journal title | Journals of Gerontology: Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, vol 63B, no 6, November 2008 |
| Pages | pp S349-S358 |
| Source | http://www.geron.org |
| Keywords | Family relationships ; Assets [elderly] ; Children [offspring] ; Parents ; Divorced persons ; Physical disabilities ; Children [offspring] as carers ; Social surveys ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | The authors used data from the US Asset and Health Dynamics Among the Oldest Old (AHEAD) survey to estimate the joint probabilities that an adult child provides time and/or cash transfers to a parent, and to analyse a five-level categorical variable capturing parent-child living arrangements. The estimates suggest significant detrimental effects of parental divorce and step relationship on time transfers and in the probability of co-residence with the index child. Family type, as captured by the composition of the index child's sibling network according to kin relationships to the parent also affected transfers and living arrangement choices of adult children. The findings that transfers from adult children to their separated disabled ageing parents depend on parental marital status and kin relationship suggest that changing family patterns are altering the traditional role of the family as a support network. These findings raise concerns about the care likely to be available to future cohorts of older people who will have experienced substantially higher rates of divorce, remarriage and step parenthood than the cohort considered in this study. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-090605223 A |
| Classmark | DS:SJ: JD: SS: SR: SOJ: BN: P6:SS: 3F: 7T |
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