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| Children's support for elderly parents in urban and rural China: results from a national survey | | Author(s) | Yean-Ju Lee, Zhenyu Xiao |
| Journal title | Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology, vol 13, no 1, 1998 |
| Pages | pp 39-62 |
| Keywords | Family care ; Family relationships ; Financial services [older people] ; Income [older people] ; China. |
| Annotation | This study examined the factors that determine adult children's financial support for older parents, using data from the China Survey on Support Systems for the Elderly conducted in 1992. The findings support the hypotheses of need-based transfers. In both rural and urban areas, children's financial transfers to their older parents are based on parents' need, and familial support compensates for inequalities in older persons' access to public resources. The data also suggest that elderly support is an outcome of short- and long-term arrangements between generations. Older Chinese people, especially those in urban areas, have short-term exchanges with their adult children, providing housing or other services and receiving financial support in return. In addition, adult children's support for older parents may be a repayment of parental investment made in them earlier. (AKM). |
| Accession Number | CPA-981104403 A |
| Classmark | P6:SJ: DS:SJ: J: JF: 7DC |
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