Motivations for Parent Care: The Case of Filial Children in Korea

1992 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 109-124 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kyu-Taik Sung
Keyword(s):  
Adult Children ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Traditional Values ◽  
Parent Care ◽  
Filial Responsibility ◽  
Caring Relationships ◽  
Elderly Parents ◽  
The Family

This study identified five major types of motivation for parent care in a survey of 130 filial Koreans: respect for parents, filial responsibility, harmonization of the family, repayment of debts, and filial sacrifice. The meanings of these qualitative dimensions of parent care in the cultural context of Korea are discussed. Filial motivations reflect the values Koreans are aspiring for today that consolidate the caring relationships between adult children and their elderly parents. Both the importance of nurturing filial morality and the need for advancing traditional values associated with the caring relationships are also discussed.

Cultural Differences in Caregiving Motivations for Demented Parents: Korean Caregivers versus American Caregivers

1997 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 115-127 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yoon-Ro Lee ◽  
Kyu-Taik Sung
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Differences ◽  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Parent Care ◽  
Filial Responsibility ◽  
Caucasian American ◽  
Elderly Parents ◽  
Low Degree

The study examined differences in motivations for parent care of Korean caregivers and Caucasian American caregivers of elderly parents with dementia. A number of American caregivers, mostly daughters of the demented parents, had affectionate relationships with their parents, but they expressed a relatively low degree of filial responsibility. In contrast, among Korean caregivers, the care of demented parents was predominantly the responsibility of daughters-in-law who were less likely to have affectionate relationships with the parents-in-law. However, Korean caregivers expressed a significantly higher level of filial responsibility than the American caregivers. Some cultural differences between the two ethnic groups associated with parent care were discussed.

scholarly journals Division of Parent Care Among Adult Children

2019 ◽  
Vol 75 (10) ◽  
pp. 2230-2239 ◽  
Author(s):  
I-Fen Lin ◽  
Douglas A Wolf
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Family Systems ◽  
Adult Children ◽  
Multilevel Models ◽  
Adult Child ◽  
Community Dwelling ◽  
Parent Care ◽  
Pattern Of Care ◽  
Systems Perspective ◽  
The Family

Abstract Objectives Many older adults rely on their children’s support to sustain community residence. Although filial norms encourage adult children to help their parents, not every child provides parent care in times of need. The majority of prior studies have adopted an individualistic perspective to examine factors associated with individual children’s caregiving behavior. This study complements previous work by using the family systems perspective to understand how caregiving responsibilities are allocated among children in the family and how the pattern of care division evolves over time. Method Data came from seven rounds of the National Health and Aging Trends Study (2011–2017), in which community-dwelling respondents were asked about all of their children and which children provided them with care. Multilevel models were estimated to examine how caregiving responsibilities were distributed among children and how the children’s caregiving efforts responded to changes in their parents’ frailty. Results About three quarters of older adults reported receiving help from only one child, and the average of monthly care hours was about 50 at baseline. As parents’ frailty increased, the proportion of children providing parents rose and the allocation of parent-care hours became more equal. Discussion This study underscores the importance of using the family systems perspective to better understand adult children’s caregiving behavior. Although just one adult child providing care is the most common caregiving arrangement initially, adult children tend to work with their siblings to support parents’ aging in place as parents’ need for care increases.

The Confucian Filial Obligation and Care for Aged Parents

1998 ◽  
pp. 120-128
Author(s):  
James Wang
Keyword(s):  
Adult Children ◽  
Moral Obligation ◽  
Filial Obligation ◽  
The West ◽  
Elderly Parents ◽  
Norman Daniels ◽  
The Family ◽  
The World ◽  
Filial Obligations ◽  
Familial Obligations

Some moral philosophers in the West (e.g., Norman Daniels and Jane English) hold that adult children have no more moral obligation to support their elderly parents than does any other person in the society, no matter how much sacrifice their parents made for them or what misery their parents are presently suffering. This is because children do not ask to be brought into the world or to be adopted. Therefore, there is a "basic asymmetry between parental and the filial obligations." I argue against the Daniels/English thesis by employing the traditional Confucian view of the nature of filial obligation. On the basis of a distinction between 'moral duty' and 'moral responsibility' and the Confucian concept of justice, I argue that the filial obligation of adult children to care respectfully for their aged parents is not necessarily self-imposed. I conclude that due to the naturalistic character of the family, the nature of our familial obligations (such as parental caring for young children and adult children's respectful caring for aged parents) cannot be consensual, contractarian and voluntarist, but instead existential, communal and historical.

Youth Development in Europe

2009 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 372-375 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katariina Salmela-Aro ◽  
Ingrid Schoon
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Relationship Quality ◽  
Youth Development ◽  
Social Relationships ◽  
Transition To Adulthood ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Integrative Framework ◽  
Reciprocal Interactions ◽  
The Family ◽  
Key Players

A series of six papers on “Youth Development in Europe: Transitions and Identities” has now been published in the European Psychologist throughout 2008 and 2009. The papers aim to make a conceptual contribution to the increasingly important area of productive youth development by focusing on variations and changes in the transition to adulthood and emerging identities. The papers address different aspects of an integrative framework for the study of reciprocal multiple person-environment interactions shaping the pathways to adulthood in the contexts of the family, the school, and social relationships with peers and significant others. Interactions between these key players are shaped by their embeddedness in varied neighborhoods and communities, institutional regulations, and social policies, which in turn are influenced by the wider sociohistorical and cultural context. Young people are active agents, and their development is shaped through reciprocal interactions with these contexts; thus, the developing individual both influences and is influenced by those contexts. Relationship quality and engagement in interactions appears to be a fruitful avenue for a better understanding of how young people adjust to and tackle development to productive adulthood.

Expanding the Cultural Context of Fatherhood and the Family

1993 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
pp. 411-412
Author(s):  
James M. O'Neil
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Context ◽  
The Family

POLA PENDIDIKAN AGAMA DALAM KELUARGA JAMA’AH TABLIGH DI DESA BOLANG KECAMATAN DAYEUHLUHUR KABUPATEN CILACAP

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 283-298
Author(s):  
Kholid Mawardi ◽  
Cucu Nurzakiyah
Keyword(s):  
Religious Education ◽  
Adult Children ◽  
Daily Activity ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Special Study ◽  
Children's Education ◽  
The Family ◽  
Children’S Education ◽  
The Village

The results of the study found that the responsibility of religious education of children in the family of Tablighi Jama'ah differed in terms of several conditions, namely first, when parents were not going to khuruj where both parents were responsible for children's education; secondly, when the father goes khuruj, then the mother is responsible for everything including children's education; third, when both parents go khuruj, then the responsibility of the child is left to other family members such as grandparents or their first adult children; and fourth, when the child goes to khuruj, where parents are responsible for children's religious education both mother and father. The pattern of the religious education in the Tablighi Jama'ah family in the village of Bolang is formed from several similarities held in the implementation of religious education, one of which is the daily activity that is carried out by the Tablighi Jama'at family. Al-Qur'an becomes one of the material given to children in the ta'lim. Children are taught how to read the Qur'an and memorize short letters such as Surat al-Falaq, al-Ikhlas, and so on. In addition to al-Qur'an, in this ta'lim there is a special study in the Tablighi Jama'ah, which is reading the book of fadhilah ‘amal, and the last is mudzakarah six characteristics.

Konsep Orang Tua Yang Durhaka Dalam Perspektif Islam

AKADEMIKA ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 116-124
Author(s):  
Siti Suwaibatul Aslamiyah
Keyword(s):  
Family Environment ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Adult Life ◽  
Growth Period ◽  
Early Age ◽  
Family Roles ◽  
Good Person ◽  
Elderly Parents ◽  
The Family ◽  
Expectant Mothers

Many are peeling many of wich explore the child’s ungodly behavior to parents, but few who explore the opposite phenomenon of the ungodly behavior of parents against their children. Children is a grace from God of Allah swt to his parents to be grateful, educated and fostered to be a good person, strong personality and ethical Islamic. While, the development of religion in children is largely determined by the education and their experience, especially during the pre-election period of expectant mothers and fathers and the first growth period from 0 to 12 years. For that, the author is moved to explore and examine (about) the concept of elderly parents in the perspective of Islam. This is the author thoroughly to know who exactly the child in his existence according to Islam? What is the rule and rule of education in family and family roles in children’s education? What are the preparations (actions) that are classified as the ungodly behavior of parens against the child? In this study shows there is an effect (impact) between the family environment (parents) on the formation of islamic character and ethics in children from an early age mainly from the factors of prospective fathers and prospective mothers so the authors get the correlation that the failure of good personality planting in early childhood will turn out to form a problematic person in his adulthood (his grow up). While the success of parents guiding their children will determine the formation of character and their morals so that the family environment conditions are crucial for the success of children in social life in their adult life later (after grow up).  In this study resulted in the conclusion that there are some things that make the parents become ungodly against their children and it has been conceptualized in the holy book of the Qur’an which at least in this study collected there are 14 components of eldery behavior of the lawless to their children.

Grandmother-Grandchild Contact: The Mediating Influence of the Middle Generation Following Marriage Breakdown and Remarriage

1989 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 355-365 ◽  
Author(s):  
James W. Gladstone
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Adult Children ◽  
Direct Influence ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
The Family ◽  
Middle Generation

ABSTRACTThis paper focuses on ways that adult children and children-in-law mediate contact between grandmothers and grandchildren, following marriage breakdown and remarriage in the middle generation. A qualitative analysis of face-to-face contact between 110 grandmother-grandchild pairs was conducted. Findings showed that adult children have a more direct influence on visiting, by arranging or obstructing visits between grandmothers and grandchildren. The influence of first or second children-in-law was found to be more indirect. By preventing an estranged spouse from seeing his or her child, custodial children-in-law could also be preventing a grandmother's access to her grandchild, if she depended on her noncustodial child to bring the grandchild to see her when he or she exercised visiting rights. Children-in-law could also act as intermediaries through their absence as well as through their presence. These findings, as well as ways that grandparents can negotiate relationships with adult children and children-in-law, are discussed. Especially noted is the value of monitoring communication exchanges, maintaining friendly relationships with children-in-law and step-grandchildren, and acting as resources to the family.

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