TY - JOUR
T1 - Caring for grandchildren and intergenerational support in rural China
T2 - A gendered extended family perspective
AU - Cong, Zhen
AU - Silverstein, Merril
N1 - Funding Information:
Dependent variables and their baseline counterparts: Financial support from children (ln+, T) Financial support from children (T) Baseline financial transfers from children (ln+, T) Baseline financial transfers from children (T) Emotional support (T) Baseline emotional support (T) Parents’ characteristics: Age Female Married Education
Funding Information:
KEY WORDS – caring for grandchildren, emotional support, financial support, intergenerational support, rural China.
PY - 2012/4
Y1 - 2012/4
N2 - This investigation examines how support from adult children is affected by their parents' involvement in grandchild care. Instead of focusing on dyadic interactions, we adopt a gendered extended family perspective to examine how financial and emotional support from children was influenced when their siblings received help with child care from their elder parents. The data were from a two-wave (2001, 2003) longitudinal study of 4,791 parent-child dyads with 1,162 parents, aged 60 and older, living in rural areas of Anhui Province, 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 under 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. We suggest taking a gendered extended family perspective when studying intergenerational relationships in rural China.
AB - This investigation examines how support from adult children is affected by their parents' involvement in grandchild care. Instead of focusing on dyadic interactions, we adopt a gendered extended family perspective to examine how financial and emotional support from children was influenced when their siblings received help with child care from their elder parents. The data were from a two-wave (2001, 2003) longitudinal study of 4,791 parent-child dyads with 1,162 parents, aged 60 and older, living in rural areas of Anhui Province, 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 under 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. We suggest taking a gendered extended family perspective when studying intergenerational relationships in rural China.
KW - caring for grandchildren
KW - emotional support
KW - financial support
KW - intergenerational support
KW - rural China
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U2 - 10.1017/S0144686X11000420
DO - 10.1017/S0144686X11000420
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:84858249488
SN - 0144-686X
VL - 32
SP - 425
EP - 450
JO - Ageing and Society
JF - Ageing and Society
IS - 3
ER -