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| Attitudes regarding filial responsibilities to help elderly divorced parents and stepparents | | Author(s) | Lawrence H Ganong, Marilyn Coleman |
| Journal title | Journal of Aging Studies, vol 12, no 3, Fall 1998 |
| Pages | pp 271-290 |
| Keywords | Family care ; Divorced persons ; Step relationships ; Attitude ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | The aim of this study was to explore attitudes regarding the obligations of family members to help older parents and step-parents. A total of 291 adults, mainly women, responded to vignettes portraying possible obligations of a woman to assist a divorced parent who had not resided with her for much of her childhood and a step-parent with whom she had spent part of her childhood years. Several conclusions were drawn: there was general agreement that adult children have some responsibility to help older divorced parents, but there was no consensus on what type of help should be given; maintaining contact over the years was an important factor in judgements regarding obligations to assist; gender of the older family member was not related to attributing obligations to help; the needs of adult children and their offspring ranked higher than the responsibility to lend assistance to an older divorced parent or step-parent; and kinship alone was not enough justification to assign obligations to adult children, nor was the absence of legal and genetic ties enough to exclude step-parents from being considered as deserving recipients of help. (AKM). |
| Accession Number | CPA-981118404 A |
| Classmark | P6:SJ: SOJ: SWM: DP: 7T |
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