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Own Gender, Sibling's Gender, Parent's Gender: The Division of Elderly Parent Care among Adult Children.
- Source :
- American Sociological Review; Feb2017, Vol. 82 Issue 1, p116-146, 31p, 10 Charts
- Publication Year :
- 2017
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Abstract
- Research on the gender division of family labor largely focuses on housework and childcare in spousal couples. This article advances scholarship by examining the gender division of elderly parent care in sibling groups. Using the Health and Retirement Study, a nationally representative survey of elderly Americans, I find that caregiving to elderly parents varies not only by an adult child's own gender, but also by the gender of the siblings with whom caregiving is shared and by the gender of the parent to whom care is provided. The salience of an adult child's gender manifests in two primary ways: not only do daughters provide more care than do sons to their elderly parents, but daughters' caregiving is also more elastic with respect to their own and their parents' attributes than is sons' caregiving. With respect to the gender of the siblings, sons provide relatively less care if they have sisters, whereas daughters provide relatively more care if they have brothers. With respect to the gender of the parent, sons provide relatively more care to fathers, and daughters provide relatively more care to mothers. Finally, analyses did not reveal changes over time. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- ELDER care
FAMILY relationships of caregivers
DIVISION of labor
SIBLINGS
GENDER
GENDER differences (Sociology)
OLDER people
SOCIAL conditions of older people
AGING
CAREGIVERS
CHILD care
DAUGHTERS
FAMILIES
FATHERS
LONGITUDINAL method
MOTHERS
PARENT-child relationships
PARENTS
REGRESSION analysis
RESEARCH funding
RETIREMENT
SEX distribution
SONS
SURVEYS
PSYCHOLOGY of adult children
ACTIVITIES of daily living
SOCIOECONOMIC factors
DESCRIPTIVE statistics
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00031224
- Volume :
- 82
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- American Sociological Review
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 121107020
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0003122416686521