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Caring for grandchildren and intergenerational support in rural China
— a gendered extended family perspective | | Author(s) | Zhen Cong, Merril Silverstein |
| Journal title | Ageing and Society, vol 32, part 3, April 2012 |
| Pages | pp 425-450 |
| Source | http://www.journals.cambridge.org/aso |
| Keywords | Grandparents ; Grandchildren ; Grandparents as carers ; Parents ; Children [offspring] ; Family relationships ; Finance ; China ; Rural areas ; Longitudinal surveys. |
| Annotation | The study looked at how support from adult children was affected by their parents' involvement in grandchild care. A gendered extended family perspective was adopted in order to examine how financial and emotional support from children was influenced when their siblings received help with child care from their older parents. The data were from a two-wave longitudinal study of 4,791 parent-child dyads with 1,162 parents aged 60 and older living in rural areas of China. Random effects regression showed that emotional support from both sons and daughters was strengthened when parents provided more child care for their other adult children. In addition daughters were more emotionally responsive than sons in this situation. Concerning dyadic parent-child relationships, daughter and sons increased their financial support, and sons increased their emotional support when they themselves received help with child care from parents. It is suggested that a gendered extended family perspective should be used when studying intergenerational relationships in rural China. (JL). |
| Accession Number | CPA-120405004 A |
| Classmark | SW: SW5: P6:SW: SR: SS: DS:SJ: WN: 7DC: RL: 3J |
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