Living with adult children: a benefit assessment of co-resident living arrangements among black and white older South Africans

1993 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 10-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Valerie Møller
Keyword(s):  
Adult Children ◽  
Living Arrangements ◽  
Benefit Assessment ◽  
South Africans ◽  
Black And White

scholarly journals The impact of living arrangements and intergenerational support on the health status of older people in China: are rural residents disadvantaged compared to urban residents?

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-26
Author(s):  
Yazhen Yang ◽  
Maria Evandrou ◽  
Athina Vlachantoni
Keyword(s):  
Life Satisfaction ◽  
Older People ◽  
Adult Children ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Living Arrangements ◽  
Psychological Wellbeing ◽  
Urban Residents ◽  
Intergenerational Support ◽  
Rural Residents ◽  
The Impact

Abstract Research to-date has examined the impact of intergenerational support in terms of isolated types of support, or at one point in time, failing to provide strong evidence of the complex effect of support on older persons’ wellbeing. Using the Harmonised China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (2011, 2013 and 2015), this paper investigates the impact of older people's living arrangements and intergenerational support provision/receipt on their physical and psychological wellbeing, focusing on rural–urban differences. The results show that receiving economic support from one's adult children was a stronger predictor for higher life satisfaction among rural residents compared to urban residents, while grandchild care provision was an important determinant for poor life satisfaction only for urban residents. Having weekly in-person and distant contact with one's adult children reduced the risk of depression in both rural and urban residents. Older women were more likely than men to receive support and to have contact with adult children, but also to report poor functional status and depression. The paper shows that it is important to improve the level of public economic transfers and public social care towards vulnerable older people in rural areas, and more emphasis should be placed on improving the psychological wellbeing of urban older residents, such as with the early diagnosis of depression.

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.

Race Differences in Changing Family Demographics in the 1980s

1994 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 290-308 ◽  
Author(s):  
TIM B. HEATON ◽  
CARDELL K. JACOBSON
Keyword(s):  
Living Arrangements ◽  
Family Formation ◽  
White Family ◽  
Mean Values ◽  
Independent Variables ◽  
Black And White ◽  
First Marriage ◽  
Small Set ◽  
Timing Of Initiation ◽  
Mother's Educational Level

Traditional demarcators of family formation and dissolution have changed dramatically over the past few decades and Black-White differences have become pronounced. In this article, we explore the degree to which a relatively small set of variables can account for racial difference in timing of initiation of sexual activity, first marriage, first birth, and divorce. The independent variables included in the model are adolescent living arrangements (single-parent vs. two-parent), mother's educational level, religion, region of the country, area of residency (urban, suburban, rural), birth cohort, and year of the survey. Based on hazard models for the rate of occurrence of each event, we estimate how Blacks would differ if they had mean values on covariates equal to White observed means. Although the results differ for the four dependent variables, this particular set of independent variables does not provide a satisfactory explanation of the differences between Black and White family formation and dissolution. Blacks and Whites may be responding to different structural and cultural constraints not easily captured by basic demographic variables.

The salience of socially engaging and disengaging emotions among Black and White South Africans

2015 ◽  
Vol 25 (6) ◽  
pp. 487-493
Author(s):  
Tselane Rose Kgantsi ◽  
Johnny R. J. Fontaine ◽  
Michael Temane
Keyword(s):  
South Africans ◽  
Black And White

scholarly journals Corrigendum to: Conflict with Mothers and Siblings During Caregiving: Differential Costs for Black and White Adult Children

2018 ◽  
Vol 75 (3) ◽  
pp. 732-732
Author(s):  
J Jill Suitor ◽  
Megan Gilligan ◽  
Marissa Rurka ◽  
Gulcin Con ◽  
Siyun Peng ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Adult Children ◽  
Black And White ◽  
Differential Costs

Life and Neighborhood Satisfaction of Black and White Residents in a Middle-Class Suburb of Johannesburg

2007 ◽  
Vol 100 (2) ◽  
pp. 489-494 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margaret S. Westaway
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Satisfaction With Life ◽  
Stepwise Multiple Regression ◽  
Life Domains ◽  
Personal Safety ◽  
South Africans ◽  
Black And White ◽  
Group Satisfaction ◽  
Black South Africans

Prior research indicates that Black South Africans are generally less satisfied with their lives and neighborhoods than White South Africans. 375 Black and 358 White adult residents of a multiracial, middle-class suburb of Johannesburg rated, from 0 to 10, their satisfaction with 9 personal and 9 environmental quality of life domains. Two items, also rated from 0 to 10, assessed satisfaction with life and the neighborhood. Although there were no differences between Black and White suburbanites on life satisfaction scores, the Black group reported being more satisfied with the neighborhood than the White group. Stepwise multiple regression indicated that health and personal safety explained the highest variance in life (29% for the Black group and 43% for the White group) and neighborhood (26% for the Black group and 18% for the White group) satisfaction.

scholarly journals Multigenerational Attainments, Race, and Mortality Risk among Silent Generation Women

2018 ◽  
Vol 59 (3) ◽  
pp. 335-351 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph D. Wolfe ◽  
Shawn Bauldry ◽  
Melissa A. Hardy ◽  
Eliza K. Pavalko
Keyword(s):  
Racial Differences ◽  
Adult Children ◽  
Mortality Risk ◽  
White Women ◽  
Adult Child ◽  
Generation Model ◽  
Silent Generation ◽  
Black And White ◽  
Family Wealth ◽  
Mature Women

This study extends health disparities research by examining racial differences in the relationships between multigenerational attainments and mortality risk among “Silent Generation” women. An emerging literature suggests that the socioeconomic attainments of adjacent generations, one’s parents and adult children, provide an array of life-extending resources in old age. Prior research, however, has demonstrated neither how multigenerational resources are implicated in women’s longevity nor how racial disparities faced by Silent Generation women may differentially structure the relationships between socioeconomic attainments and mortality. With data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Mature Women, the analysis provided evidence of a three-generation model in which parent occupation, family wealth, and adult child education were independently associated with women’s mortality. Although we found evidence of racial differences in the associations between parental, personal, and spousal education and mortality risk, the education of adult children was a robust predictor of survival for black and white women.

Intergenerational education mobility of black and white South Africans

2007 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 149-182 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alain-Désiré Nimubona ◽  
Désiré Vencatachellum
Keyword(s):  
South Africans ◽  
Black And White ◽  
Intergenerational Education
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