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| Older parents' expectations of moving closer to their children | | Author(s) | Merril Silverstein, Joseph J Angelelli |
| Journal title | The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological sciences and social sciences, vol 53B, no 3, May 1998 |
| Pages | pp S153-S163 |
| Keywords | Migration ; Family relationships ; Family care ; Parents ; Children [offspring] ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Research shows that older parents engage in return migration in order to live closer to children from whom they receive care. However, less is known about how characteristics of adult children influence this process. This US study used data from 5,382 older parents participating in the 1993/94 Asset and Health Dynamics of the Oldest Old (AHEAD) national survey of adults aged 70 years and over. Findings demonstrated that older parents who expect to move closer to adult children tend to be older, female, and have at least one child who is better off financially than they are. Living alone magnifies the effect of poor self-rated health on expecting to move closer to a child. Random effects modelling of children's characteristics reveals that parents are more likely to expect to move closer to a daughter than to a son. Greater parental functional impairment was found further to depress the selection of sons. Overall, the findings suggest that older parents expect to move closer to adult children out of need and tend to select a target child with greater potential to provide support. (AKM). |
| Accession Number | CPA-980813422 A |
| Classmark | TN: DS:SJ: P6:SJ: SR: SS: 7T |
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