Early Family Relationships, Intergenerational Solidarity, and Support Provided to Parents by Their Adult Children

1994 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. S85-S94 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Whitbeck ◽  
D. R. Hoyt ◽  
S. M. Huck
Keyword(s):  
Adult Children ◽  
Family Relationships ◽  
Intergenerational Solidarity ◽  
Early Family

scholarly journals Family Practices Across Generations and National Borders

2018 ◽  
Vol 63 (2) ◽  
pp. 143-169
Author(s):  
Ionuţ Földes ◽  
Veronica Savu
Keyword(s):  
Adult Children ◽  
Family Relationships ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Spatial Separation ◽  
Intergenerational Support ◽  
Elderly Parents ◽  
Practical Support ◽  
Family Practices ◽  
And Migration ◽  
National Borders

Abstract Part of the mobility and migration process, family relationships and mutual support are subject of various transformations. Spatial separation between family members creates a specific setting for analysis which leads to the necessity of understanding how family practices are arranged and developed across time and distance. The present study focuses on the dyad emigrated adult children and non-migrated elderly parents living in Romania and on the types of intergenerational family practices that occur between these dyads across national borders. Our analysis of family practices relies on tracing certain set of actions taken by family members in order to maintain, consolidate, and ultimately to display family solidarity. We consider here various forms of practices, namely technological mediated contacts, visits, time-consuming practical support and financial assistance. Analyses are based on the national survey entitled Intergenerational solidarity in the context of work migration abroad. The situation of elderly left at home, which provides empirical data about the relationships from a distance between elderly parents living in Romania and their migrant adult children. Descriptive statistics are provided in order to assess the flow directions, the frequency and the intensity of each type of intergenerational support. Our empirical evidence highlights that transnational support is asymmetrical and multidirectional. Results also support that intergenerational support and family relationships can no longer be theoretically approached in terms of a simple dichotomy.

scholarly journals Quality of early family relationships and the timing and tempo of puberty: Effects depend on biological sensitivity to context

2011 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-99 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruce J. Ellis ◽  
Elizabeth A. Shirtcliff ◽  
W. Thomas Boyce ◽  
Julianna Deardorff ◽  
Marilyn J. Essex
Keyword(s):  
Family Relationships ◽  
Pubertal Timing ◽  
Pubic Hair ◽  
Interactive Effects ◽  
Hair Development ◽  
Pubertal Tempo ◽  
Biological Sensitivity To Context ◽  
Parent Child Relationships ◽  
Early Family ◽  
Parent Child

AbstractGuided by evolutionary–developmental theories of biological sensitivity to context and reproductive development, the current research examined the interactive effects of early family environments and psychobiologic reactivity to stress on the subsequent timing and tempo of puberty. As predicted by the theory, among children displaying heightened biological sensitivity to context (i.e., higher stress reactivity), higher quality parent–child relationships forecast slower initial pubertal tempo and later pubertal timing, whereas lower quality parent–child relationships forecast the opposite pattern. No such effects emerged among less context-sensitive children. Whereas sympathetic nervous system reactivity moderated the effects of parent–child relationships on both breast/genital and pubic hair development, adrenocortical activation only moderated the effect on pubic hair development. The current results build on previous research documenting what family contexts predict variation in pubertal timing by demonstrating for whom those contexts matter. In addition, the authors advance a new methodological approach for assessing pubertal tempo using piecewise growth curve analysis.

A Confluence of Worries: Grandparents in Skipped-Generation Households in Thailand

2019 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 135-157 ◽  
Author(s):  
Berit Ingersoll-Dayton ◽  
Kanchana Tangchonlatip ◽  
Sureeporn Punpuing
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Adult Children ◽  
Family Relationships ◽  
Risky Behavior ◽  
Primary Caregivers ◽  
The United States ◽  
Family Crisis ◽  
The Future

The responsibilities associated with looking after grandchildren can be a source of considerable worry for grandparents if they are their primary caregivers. Most of the research on this topic has been conducted in the United States with grandparents who are caring for grandchildren because of family crisis. In contrast, this study focuses on grandparents in Thailand who are caring for grandchildren due to the migration of their adult children seeking income. Interviews were conducted with 48 grandparents from three provinces in Thailand. Using thematic analysis, we identified the major kinds of worries experienced by these grandparents: family relationships, finances, the risky behavior and safety of their grandchildren, and the future. We explore each of these worries in depth and contrast Thai grandparents’ experiences with those of grandparents in the United States.

scholarly journals Reported early family environment covaries with menarcheal age as a function of polymorphic variation in estrogen receptor-α

2011 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-83 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen B. Manuck ◽  
Anna E. Craig ◽  
Janine D. Flory ◽  
Indrani Halder ◽  
Robert E. Ferrell
Keyword(s):  
Estrogen Receptor ◽  
Family Environment ◽  
Family Relationships ◽  
Environmental Influence ◽  
Estrogen Receptor Α ◽  
Age At Menarche ◽  
Polymorphic Variation ◽  
Pubertal Maturation ◽  
Menarcheal Age ◽  
Early Family

AbstractAge at menarche, a sentinel index of pubertal maturation, was examined in relation to early family relationships (conflict, cohesion) and polymorphic variation in the gene encoding estrogen receptor-α (ESR1) in a midlife sample of 455 European American women. Consistent with prior literature, women who reported being raised in families characterized by close interpersonal relationships and little conflict tended to reach menarche at a later age than participants reared in families lacking cohesion and prone to discord. Moreover, this association was moderated byESR1variation, such that quality of the family environment covaried positively with menarcheal age among participants homozygous for minor alleles of the twoESR1polymorphisms studied here (rs9304799, rs2234693), but not among women of otherESR1genotypes. In addition, (a) family relationship variables were unrelated toESR1variation, and (b) genotype-dependent effects of childhood environment on age at menarche could not be accounted for by personality traits elsewhere shown to explain heritable variation in reported family conflict and cohesion. These findings are consistent with theories of differential susceptibility to environmental influence, as well as the more specific hypothesis (by Belsky) that girls differ genetically in their sensitivity to rearing effects on pubertal maturation.

scholarly journals Generationenbeziehungen im Alter: Türkische Familien in der Türkei und in Westeuropa

2013 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-28
Author(s):  
Helen Baykara-Krumme
Keyword(s):  
International Migration ◽  
Family Relationships ◽  
Intergenerational Relationships ◽  
Family Values ◽  
Spatial Distance ◽  
Transnational Families ◽  
Intergenerational Solidarity ◽  
Frequency Of Contact ◽  
Migrant Families ◽  
New Perspective

This paper explores the consequences of international migration on family relationships of elderly migrants from a new perspective: It compares intergenerational relationships among migrants from Turkey who live in Europe with those among non-migrants who never went abroad and, as a third group, transnational families. This study draws from the international LineUp Survey “Migration Histories of Turks in Europe”. Dependent variables are the frequency of contact, mutual support exchange patterns and family values as reported by the adult children. Findings indicate more intense intergenerational relationships in migrant families as compared to families in Turkey, but lower agreement with norms on intergenerational solidarity among the former. Whereas differences in behavior can be explained almost completely by compositional differences, multivariate analyses suggest persisting divergences in attitudes. Transnational families show the lowest degree of intergenerational solidarity which can be explained by the large spatial distance. By tendency, the findings indicate a change in values, but overall continuity in behavior patterns in the course of an international migration. Zusammenfassung Dieser Beitrag nähert sich der Frage nach den Auswirkungen einer internationalen Migration auf die Generationenbeziehungen älterer Menschen aus einer neuen Perspektive: Verglichen werden die Beziehungen in türkeistämmigen Familien in Westeuropa mit Familien in der Türkei sowie, als dritte Gruppe, transnationalen Familien. Die Datengrundlage bildet die internationale LineUp- Studie „Migration Histories of Turks in Europe“. Zielvariablen sind familienbezogene Werteinstellungen sowie Kontakthäufigkeit und gegenseitige Unterstützungsleistungen aus Sicht der erwachsenen Kinder. Migrantenfamilien zeigen in den Verhaltensmustern intensivere Beziehungen als Familien in der Türkei, allerdings stellen diese Unterschiede nahezu vollständig Kompositionseffekte dar. Unterschiede in den Werteeinstellungen, mit geringerer normativer Solidarität in Migrantenfamilien, bleiben dagegen auch in multivariaten Analysen tendenziell bestehen. Transnationale Familien weisen die geringste Generationensolidarität auf, was auf die große Wohnentfernung zurückzuführen ist. Die Befunde geben tendenziell Hinweise auf einen Wertewandel in der Migration bei weitgehender Kontinuität der Verhaltensmuster.

scholarly journals The Ethics of Child Resocialization in Uwineza G. Sabano’s “Family Conflict”: From the Urgent Need for Exorcisms to the Imperative of Behavior Renewal

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 409-423
Author(s):  
Pierre Suzanne Eyenga Onana
Keyword(s):  
Adult Children ◽  
Family Relationships ◽  
Family Conflict ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Main Thrust ◽  
Know How

Uwineza G. Sabano in Family Conflict presents scenarios of stormy family relationships between parents and adult children around various issues. How does the adult deploy his or her experiential know-how in order to exorcise the behavioural imposture and, in so doing, bring about an alternative way of life, the main thrust of which is ethics in behaviour? Anne Ubersfeld’s and Patrice Pavis’ theatrical semiotics and semiology guide this reflection, which is divided into three parts. At the end of the analysis, it emerges that in order to better evolve in his or her life, the child needs constant family supervision.

scholarly journals A selfish generation? ‘Baby boomers’, values, and the provision of childcare for grandchildren

2020 ◽  
pp. 003802612091610
Author(s):  
Laura Airey ◽  
David Lain ◽  
Jakov Jandrić ◽  
Wendy Loretto
Keyword(s):  
Baby Boomers ◽  
Adult Children ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Intergenerational Solidarity ◽  
World War ◽  
Grandparental Childcare ◽  
Family Based ◽  
Familial Obligations ◽  
Second World

‘Baby boomers’, born after the Second World War, have been portrayed as selfish and individualistic, depriving subsequent generations of the opportunities they themselves benefitted from. This debate has ignored intergenerational transfers within families, such as provision of grandparental childcare. This article explores why grandparents choose to provide childcare for grandchildren while their adult children are working. Drawing on qualitative interviews with 55 grandparents, we argue that values are essential to understanding why grandparents chose to provide childcare in the first place. These values relate to the importance of family-based childcare, familial obligations towards adult children, and intergenerational solidarity. While values shaped the desire to provide some childcare, the socio-economic and employment circumstances of adult children and grandparents influenced the nature of the childcare provided and the changes grandparents made to their lives to accommodate caring. Some grandparents significantly changed their employment and housing circumstances to provide childcare, undermining the stereotype of a ‘selfish generation’.

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