Understanding the Living Arrangements of Latino Immigrants: A Life Course Approach

1998 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Blank ◽  
Ramon S. Torrecilha
Keyword(s):  
Life Course ◽  
Puerto Rican ◽  
Living Arrangements ◽  
Extended Family ◽  
Panel Study ◽  
Latino Immigrants ◽  
Household Composition ◽  
Family Living ◽  
And Migration ◽  
Cuban Immigrants

Using data from the 1990 Panel Study of Income Dynamics Latino Sample, this study examines three competing hypotheses for understanding extended family living among Mexican, Puerto Rican and Cuban immigrants. The findings indicate no significant relationship between living with extended kin and cultural indicators — such as English fluency – or economic factors – such as employment and income. Rather, the data support a life course explanation. Extended family living arrangements among Latino immigrants represent a resource generating strategy for caring for young children and older adults. Differences in age, relative location in the life course, and migration opportunities inform group variation in extended living arrangements for Mexican, Puerto Rican and Cuban immigrants. These findings verify patterns of household composition among Latino immigrants suggested by nonrandom, ethnographic samples.

Beyond the Economic-Need Hypothesis: A Life-Course Explanation of Women’s Extended Family Living Arrangements in Chile

2021 ◽  
pp. 0192513X2110223
Author(s):  
Julieta Palma
Keyword(s):  
Life Course ◽  
Living Arrangements ◽  
Extended Family ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Lone Mothers ◽  
Family Living ◽  
Household Heads ◽  
Family Strategy ◽  
Economic Need ◽  
Extended Households

Previous research has mainly understood household extension as a family strategy to face economic deprivation, giving little attention to other factors affecting it. Using 2017 data from the National Socioeconomic Characterization Survey, this article evaluates the role played by economic and life-course factors in extended family living arrangements among women in family units in Chile ( n = 60,111). Results indicate that economic needs are an important driver for those seeking refuge in someone else’s home, but they are less important for those hosting other relatives within their household. Importantly, the likelihood of living in an extended household—and the position that family units occupy within the household (as head-families or subfamilies)—changes over the life span. Young women (15–34 years) are more likely to live in extended households as sub-families, while middle-aged women (45–64 years) tend to live in extended households as household heads, hosting young cohabiting couples, or lone mothers.

scholarly journals Living Arrangements of Young Adults in Europe

2015 ◽  
Vol 40 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Katrin Schwanitz ◽  
Clara H. Mulder
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Living Arrangements ◽  
Linear Models ◽  
Extended Family ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Time Variability ◽  
North West ◽  
Family Living ◽  
Log Linear ◽  
Cross National

Comparative research suggests that there are great cross-national and cross-temporal differences in living arrangements of young adults aged 18-34 in Europe. In this paper, we examine young adults’ living arrangements (1) across several European countries and different national contexts, and (2) by taking into account cross-time variability. In doing so, we pay careful attention to a comprehensive conceptualisation of living arrangements (including extended and non-family living arrangements). The aim of this paper is to deepen our understanding of family structure and household arrangements in Europe by examining and mapping the cross-national and cross-temporal variety of young adults’ living arrangements. For our analysis we use data from the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series International (IPUMSi) for the census rounds 1980, 1990, and 2000 for eight European countries (Austria, France, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Portugal, Romania, and Switzerland). We employ log-linear models to ascertain the influence of individual and contextual factors on living arrangements. The analyses lend further support to a North/West – South/East divide in living arrangements and general gender differentials in extended family living. Other interesting results are the heterogeneity in the living arrangements of single mothers across geographic areas, and the upward trend of extended household living for young men and women between 1980 and 2000.

scholarly journals PROVIDING AND RECEIVING FAMILY CARE ACROSS THE LIFE COURSE: INSIGHTS FROM THE OLDEST OLD

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. S612-S613
Author(s):  
Taylor Patskanick ◽  
Julie Miller ◽  
Chaiwoo Lee ◽  
Lisa D’Ambrosio
Keyword(s):  
Life Course ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Oldest Old ◽  
Panel Study ◽  
Later Life ◽  
The United States ◽  
Household Composition ◽  
Extensive Experience ◽  
Living Situation ◽  
The Life Course

Abstract Unprecedented longevity comes with an increased need for providing and receiving care. A 2015 report estimated 39.8 million adults in the United States provided unpaid care to an adult in 2014 (NAC & AARP). Previous research has focused disproportionately on experiences of providing care to older adults, but little has explored experiences of providing care and receiving care among the oldest old. Adults aged 85 and older are likely to have provided care to an adult family member at some point in their lives, but now may be receiving care themselves. The presentation will report on findings from a mixed methods study investigating the experiences of providing and receiving care across the life course among a sample of the “oldest old.” Data draw from focus groups and a survey with the MIT AgeLab Lifestyle Leaders, a bimonthly panel study of adults ages 85 and older. Findings suggest the Lifestyle Leaders had extensive experience providing care, particularly in older age. They most often cared for family members with long-term physical or cognitive conditions. Opinions on learning new technologies to help with caregiving and robot caregivers were mixed. The majority of the Lifestyle Leaders received regular help with at least one care task regardless of household composition or living situation. Many reported help had improved their health, but they felt like a burden to their caregivers. Even in later life, the Lifestyle Leaders had few ideas about who might take care of them if they needed care in the future.

scholarly journals Living Arrangements of Mothers and Their Adult Children Over the Life Course

2016 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 111-134 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily E. Wiemers ◽  
Vladislav Slanchev ◽  
Kathleen McGarry ◽  
V. Joseph Hotz
Keyword(s):  
Life Course ◽  
Adult Children ◽  
Parental Support ◽  
Living Arrangements ◽  
Elderly Women ◽  
Living Arrangement ◽  
Panel Study ◽  
Income Dynamics ◽  
The Life Course ◽  
The Relationship

Early in the last century, it was commonplace for elderly women to live with their adult children. Over time, the prevalence of this type of living arrangement declined, as incomes increased. In more recent decades, coresidence between adult children and their retirement-age parents has become more common, as children rely on parental support later into adulthood. We use panel data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics to examine the living arrangements of older mothers and their adult children over the life course. We pay particular attention to the relationship between coresidence and indicators of parental and child needs. Our results suggest that for much of the life course, coresidence serves to benefit primarily the adult children rather than their older mother. We also highlight a little known phenomenon, that of children who never leave the parental home and remain coresident well into their later adult years.

scholarly journals Under Whose Roof? Understanding the Living Arrangements of Children in Doubled-Up Households

Demography ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hope Harvey ◽  
Rachel Dunifon ◽  
Natasha Pilkauskas
Keyword(s):  
Living Arrangements ◽  
Extended Family ◽  
Demographic Characteristics ◽  
Community Survey ◽  
Household Composition ◽  
Program Participation ◽  
Housing Status ◽  
Disadvantaged Children ◽  
Family Demography

Abstract A growing literature in family demography examines children's residence in doubled-up (shared) households with extended family members and nonkin. This research has largely overlooked the role of doubling up as a housing strategy, with “hosts” (householders) providing housing support for “guests” living in their home. Yet, understanding children's experiences in doubled-up households requires attention to host/guest status. Using the American Community Survey and Survey of Income and Program Participation, we identify the prevalence of children doubling up as hosts and guests in different household compositions (multigenerational, extended family, nonkin), show how this varies by demographic characteristics, and examine children's patterns of residence across these household types. We find large variation by demographic characteristics. More disadvantaged children have higher rates of doubling up as guests than hosts, whereas more advantaged children have higher rates of doubling up as hosts than guests. Additionally, compared with hosts, guests more often use doubling up as a longer-term strategy; a greater share of guests live consistently doubled up over a three-year period, but those who do transition between household types experience more transitions on average than do hosts. Our findings show the importance of attending to both housing status and household composition when studying children living in doubled-up households.

Migration and the Internet

2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 331-342 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas John Cooke ◽  
Ian Shuttleworth
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Unobserved Heterogeneity ◽  
Panel Study ◽  
The United States ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Using Data ◽  
And Migration ◽  
Dynamics Models

It is widely presumed that information and communication technologies, or ICTs, enable migration in several ways; primarily by reducing the costs of migration. However, a reconsideration of the relationship between ICTs and migration suggests that ICTs may just as well hinder migration; primarily by reducing the costs of not moving.  Using data from the US Panel Study of Income Dynamics, models that control for sources of observed and unobserved heterogeneity indicate a strong negative effect of ICT use on inter-state migration within the United States. These results help to explain the long-term decline in internal migration within the United States.

How left behind are rural parents of migrant children? Evidence from Thailand

2010 ◽  
Vol 30 (5) ◽  
pp. 811-841 ◽  
Author(s):  
JOHN KNODEL ◽  
JIRAPORN KESPICHAYAWATTANA ◽  
CHANPEN SAENGTIENCHAI ◽  
SUVINEE WIWATWANICH
Keyword(s):  
Adult Children ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Living Arrangements ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Extended Family ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Social Contact ◽  
Migrant Children ◽  
Older Parents ◽  
Economic Changes

ABSTRACTThe consequences of adult children's migration from rural areas for older parents who remain behind are keenly debated. While the mass media and international advocacy organisations favour an ‘alarmist’ view of desertion, the academic literature makes more sanguine assessments using the ‘household strategy’ and ‘modified extended family’ perspectives. We examine the relationship between the migration of adult children and various dimensions of older parents' wellbeing in Thailand using evidence from a survey that focused on the issues. The results provide little support for the alarmist view, but instead suggest that parents and adult children adapt to the social and economic changes associated with development in ways not necessarily detrimental to intergenerational relations. The migration of children, especially to urban areas, often benefits parents' material support while the recent spread of cell phones has radically increased their ability to maintain social contact. Nevertheless, changing living arrangements through increased migration and the smaller family sizes of the youngest age groups of older people pose serious challenges for aspects of filial support, especially at advanced ages when chronic illness and frailty require long-term personal care. Dealing with this emerging situation in a context of social, economic and technological change is among the most critical issues facing those concerned with the implications of rapid population ageing in Thailand and elsewhere.

Socio-Economic Family Background and Adult Children’s Health in Germany: The Role of Intergenerational Transmission of Education

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oliver Arránz Becker ◽  
Katharina Loter
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Life Course ◽  
Intergenerational Transmission ◽  
Parental Education ◽  
Panel Study ◽  
Later Life ◽  
Children's Health ◽  
Children’S Health ◽  
Physical And Mental Health ◽  
Intergenerational Transmission Of Education

Abstract This study examines consequences of parental education for adult children’s physical and mental health using panel data from the German Socio-Economic Panel study. Based on random-effects growth curve models (N = 15,144 West German respondents born between 1925 and 1998 aged 18–80), we estimate gender-, age-, and cohort-specific trajectories of physical and mental health components of the SF-12 questionnaire for low and high parental education measured biennially from 2002 to 2018. Findings suggest more persistent effects of parental education on physical than mental health. In particular, both daughters and sons of the lower educated group of parents (with neither parent qualified for university) exhibit markedly poorer physical health over the whole life course and worse mental health in mid-life and later life than those of higher educated parents. Thus, children’s health gradients conditional on parental education tend to widen with increasing age. Once children’s educational attainment is held constant, effects of parental education on children’s health mostly vanish. This suggests that in the strongly stratified West German context with its rather low social mobility, intergenerational transmission of education, which, according to our analyses, has been declining among younger cohorts, contributes to cementing long-term health inequalities across the life course.

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