The Dissolution of Joint Living Arrangements among Single Parents and Children: Does Welfare Make a Difference?

2001 ◽  
Vol 82 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter D. Brandon ◽  
Gene A. Fisher
Keyword(s):  
Living Arrangements ◽  
Single Parents ◽  
Parents And Children

Living Arrangements of Single Parents and Their Children in South Korea

2016 ◽  
Vol 52 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 89-105 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hyunjoon Park ◽  
Jaesung Choi ◽  
Hyejeong Jo
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
Living Arrangements ◽  
Single Parents

scholarly journals My Home is my Castle? The Role of Living Arrangements on Experiencing the COVID-19 Pandemic: Evidence From Germany

2022 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander Langenkamp ◽  
Tomás Cano ◽  
Christian S. Czymara
Keyword(s):  
Single Mothers ◽  
Text Analysis ◽  
Living Arrangements ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Single Parents ◽  
Two Dimensions ◽  
Living Alone ◽  
Living Situation ◽  
Quantitative Text Analysis

During the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany, social restrictions and social distancing policies forced large parts of social life to take place within the household. However, comparatively little is known about how private living situations shaped individuals experiences of this crisis. To investigate this issue, we analyze how experiences and concerns vary across living arrangements along two dimensions that may be associated with social disadvantage: loneliness and care. In doing so, we employ quantitative text analysis on open-ended questions from survey data on a sample of 1,073 individuals living in Germany. We focus our analyses on four different household structures: living alone, shared living without children, living with a partner and children, and single parents. We find that single parents (who are primarily single mothers) are at high risk of experiencing care-related worries, particularly regarding their financial situation, while individuals living alone are most likely to report feelings of loneliness. Those individuals living in shared houses, with or without children, had the lowest risk of experiencing both loneliness and care-related worries. These findings illustrate that the living situation at home substantially impacts how individuals experienced and coped with the pandemic situation during the first wave of the pandemic.

Perceptions by Adult Children of Elderly Parents' Needs

1996 ◽  
Vol 78 (2) ◽  
pp. 571-577 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Halpern ◽  
Mary Ann Shroder ◽  
Maryalice Citera
Keyword(s):  
Adult Children ◽  
Emotional Support ◽  
Living Arrangements ◽  
Adult Child ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Retirement Communities ◽  
Elderly Parents ◽  
Factors Associated ◽  
Parents And Children ◽  
Opposite Sex

The purpose of this study was to examine the accuracy of adult children's perceptions of their elderly parents' concerns. Factors associated with moderate involvement between the elderly parent and adult child were predicted to lead to the greatest accuracy. 48 pairs of elderly parents and adult children filled out questionnaires regarding the parents' concerns about seven areas of functioning. Analysis showed that concerns about health and emotional support were rated as most important by elderly parents. Adult children accurately perceived these concerns to be most important to their parents. For health concerns, opposite-sex pairs of parents and children showed greatest agreement. For emotional support concerns, however, both sons and daughters were more accurate predicting their fathers' concerns than their mothers'. Middle-born children tended to be more accurate in their predictions of parents' concerns than oldest or youngest children. Living arrangements also influenced accuracy. In predicting the concerns of elderly parents, adult children were most accurate for parents living in retirement communities, moderately accurate for parents living independently, and least accurate for parents living in the adult child's home. Further, children sharing a household with an adult parent tended to overestimate their parents' concerns on some issues. The results were consistent with the moderate involvement hypothesis. The implications of these results and suggestions for research are discussed.

scholarly journals My home is my castle? The role of living arrangements on experiencing the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander Langenkamp ◽  
Tomas Cano ◽  
Christian S. Czymara
Keyword(s):  
Text Analysis ◽  
Living Arrangements ◽  
Living Arrangement ◽  
Single Parents ◽  
Living Alone ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Financial Situation ◽  
Quantitative Text Analysis ◽  
The Impact

The restrictions implemented to slow down the spread of COVID-19 are leading to noticeable declines in mental health. However, one’s living arrangement may buffer or catalyze the impact of COVID-19’s restrictions. We argue that restrictions may have a stronger impact for those with higher risk of loneliness and those who need to provide childcare. To test these considerations, we employ quantitative text analysis on open-ended questions from novel survey data of a sample of about 1,100 individuals. We examine how worries and loneliness vary across four different household structures: Living alone, shared living without children, living with a partner and children, and single parents. We find that individuals living alone are most likely to report feelings of loneliness, while single parents are at highest risk of experience care related worries, particularly regarding their financial situation. Those sharing a house, with or without children, had lower risks of experiencing both loneliness or care related worries. Implications for policy and practice are discussed.

Negotiating Transborder Kinship

Homing ◽  
2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ji-Yeon O. Jo
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
Living Arrangements ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Family Composition ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
Transnational Movements ◽  
Return Migrants ◽  
Parents And Children ◽  
The Family ◽  
Korean Nation

I investigate how the interplay between legal-juridical notions of citizenship and socioculturally mediated belonging affects the family lives of return migrants, as well as how and why transborder ties between returnees and their kin have been maintained or broken. I pay special attention to the production of transborder kinship by paying heed to the lives of families across and within nation-state borders. Here, family composition and living arrangements, especially those involving parents and children, often defy normative understandings of family. I investigate how such arrangements have been necessitated by the transnational movements of my interlocutors and their affective connections with each other and with the Korean nation. And though returnees maneuver their locations in time and space in order to accommodate their family lives, their family lives have nevertheless been interrupted by their migration to South Korea, which has repercussions for their affective topographies.

Speech-Language Pathologists' Comfort Level With Use of Term “Stuttering” During Evaluations

2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 841-850 ◽  
Author(s):  
Courtney T. Byrd ◽  
Danielle Werle ◽  
Kenneth O. St. Louis
Keyword(s):  
Communication Disorders ◽  
Academic Experiences ◽  
Comfort Level ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Clinical Experiences ◽  
Speech Language Pathologists ◽  
Comfort Levels ◽  
Parents And Children ◽  
Evaluation Feedback ◽  
Study Participants

Purpose Speech-language pathologists (SLPs) anecdotally report concern that their interactions with a child who stutters, including even the use of the term “stuttering,” might contribute to negative affective, behavioral, and cognitive consequences. This study investigated SLPs' comfort in providing a diagnosis of “stuttering” to children's parents/caregivers, as compared to other commonly diagnosed developmental communication disorders. Method One hundred forty-one school-based SLPs participated in this study. Participants were randomly assigned to one of two vignettes detailing an evaluation feedback session. Then, participants rated their level of comfort disclosing diagnostic terms to parents/caregivers. Participants provided rationale for their ratings and answered various questions regarding academic and clinical experiences to identify factors that may have influenced ratings. Results SLPs were significantly less likely to feel comfortable using the term “stuttering” compared to other communication disorders. Thematic responses revealed increased experience with a specific speech-language population was related to higher comfort levels with using its diagnostic term. Additionally, knowing a person who stutters predicted greater comfort levels as compared to other clinical and academic experiences. Conclusions SLPs were significantly less comfortable relaying the diagnosis “stuttering” to families compared to other speech-language diagnoses. Given the potential deleterious effects of avoidance of this term for both parents and children who stutter, future research should explore whether increased exposure to persons who stutter of all ages systematically improves comfort level with the use of this term.

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