Long-term recovery for the ‘adult children’ of parents who use alcohol in Iceland

2022 ◽  
pp. 108-124
Author(s):  
Jóna Ólafsdóttir ◽  
Amanda Clayson
Keyword(s):  
Adult Children

Legacies of Marginalization: System Avoidance among the Adult Children of Unauthorized Immigrants in the United States

2019 ◽  
Vol 54 (3) ◽  
pp. 707-739
Author(s):  
Sarah Desai ◽  
Jessica Houston Su ◽  
Robert M. Adelman
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Adult Children ◽  
Regression Models ◽  
Social Institutions ◽  
The United States ◽  
Immigrant Parents ◽  
Formal Employment ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Institutional Participation

The threat of deportation shapes the way that unauthorized immigrants and their families interact with social institutions. For example, the adult children of unauthorized immigrants might avoid institutions that keep formal records (“surveilling” institutions) because such institutions could potentially expose their families to deportation. Using intergenerational data from the Immigration and Intergenerational Mobility in Metropolitan Los Angeles survey, we examine the relationship between immigrant parents’ authorization status and their adult children’s institutional participation ( n = 3,283). Results from Poisson and propensity-weighted regression models suggest that the adult children of unauthorized immigrants were more likely to avoid surveilling institutions, such as formal employment, than those with authorized parents. In contrast, parental immigration status was unrelated to their attachment to non-surveilling institutions, such as community groups or religious organizations. This finding suggests that the adult children of unauthorized immigrants are not systematically disengaged from all institutions but may avoid surveilling institutions in particular due to fear of their family’s deportation. This type of system avoidance may have long-term consequences for their social and economic mobility.

scholarly journals Is home the best place to be old?The changing geography of responsibilities in the care for elderly.

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Frits De Lange
Keyword(s):  
Adult Children ◽  
Frail Elderly ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Ethical Question ◽  
Moral Philosopher ◽  
Care For The Elderly ◽  
Specific Vulnerability ◽  
To Receive ◽  
Meaning Of Home

In this article, the changing geography of care for the elderly in today’s society is mapped out in (1) its consequences for the meaning of “home” for frail elderly and (2) for the distribution of care responsibilities. Two current ideas that are criticized are that (1) home is always the best place to be (and therefore also the preferred place to receive care), and (2) that one has stronger ethical obligations to people who live in one’s neighbourhood, because of their proximity. Together with the so-called ethics of care, care is considered a fundamental societal practice, and the distribution of caring responsibilities a primary ethical question. Care responsibility, it is argued, is never a natural given, but must be negotiated in every situation and different context anew. In following moral philosopher Robert Goodin, the article concludes that responsibility in long-term relationships between frail parents and adult children not proximity is decisive for assigning responsibility, but the parents’ specific vulnerability.

scholarly journals DO THE PRESENCE OF ADULT CHILDREN AND THEIR MARITAL STATUS MATTER FOR ACCESS TO THE PUBLIC LONG-TERM CARE SYSTEM?

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. S941-S941
Author(s):  
Tomoko Wakui ◽  
Suguru Okubo ◽  
Nanako Tamiya ◽  
Taeko Watanabe ◽  
Tatsuro Ishizaki ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Marital Status ◽  
Adult Children ◽  
Long Term Care ◽  
Care Needs ◽  
Term Care ◽  
The Public ◽  
Married Child ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Care System

Abstract Knowing how the presence of family affects access to the public long-term care system is important for evaluating the adequacy of the system. This study examined the relationship between the presence of adult children and their marital status, and access to a public system by examining the gap between self-reported care needs and the official certification as needing care under the Japanese public long-term care insurance system. Data from Japan’s 2016 Comprehensive Survey of Living Conditions were used. A total of 23,466 older adult claimants, aged 65 years and older were analyzed. Outcomes were whether or not claimants were officially certified as needing care under the system, and the relationship of the presence of both live-in and live-out children and their marital status were examined controlling for claimants’ age, gender, education, financial status, and physical and cognitive conditions. Females comprised 64.8% of the sample, and the average age was 83 years (SD=7.8). The percentage of claimants living with a single or married child were 25.2% and 26.9%, respectively, and 60.1% were parents of children who lived independently. The percentage who were officially certified as needing care was 68.5%. Logistic regression analysis revealed that claimants with a live-in child were less likely to be officially certified as needing care, and claimants with live-in a single child were less likely to be officially certified compared with those with a married child. Live-in single children may provide long-term care by themselves, and the excess burden on them needs to be further investigated.

Modernisation and filial piety among traditional family care-givers: a study of Arab-Israelis in cultural transition

2011 ◽  
Vol 32 (5) ◽  
pp. 769-789 ◽  
Author(s):  
RABIA KHALAILA ◽  
HOWARD LITWIN
Keyword(s):  
Adult Children ◽  
Filial Piety ◽  
Culturally Relevant ◽  
Family Care ◽  
Hierarchical Regression ◽  
Cultural Transition ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Care Givers

ABSTRACTThe purpose of this paper was to examine the association of modernisation and filial piety among adult children care-givers of elderly Arab parents in Israel, and to identify factors that mediate the association. Cross-sectional data were collected in 2006–07 through structured interviews with 250 randomly sampled Arab-Israeli adult children care-givers. Hierarchical regression was then applied to the study variables in the respondents’ scores on a culturally relevant filial piety scale. The results revealed a negative correlation between modernisation, as measured by individualistic lifestyle and level of urbanisation, and filial piety scores. The association between individualistic lifestyle and filial piety was partially mediated by perceived care-giver burden. Given the observed trends, programme and policy planners should establish more services that are uniquely suited to the needs of a changing Arab society, in order to provide culturally relevant long-term support for the family network in a period of accelerated modernisation.

Health-Related Quality of Life—From the Perspective of Mothers and Fathers of Adult Children Suffering From Long-Term Mental Disorders

2015 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 180-185 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anita Johansson ◽  
Mats Ewertzon ◽  
Birgitta Andershed ◽  
Agneta Anderzen-Carlsson ◽  
Salmir Nasic ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Mental Disorders ◽  
Adult Children ◽  
Health Related Quality ◽  
Mothers And Fathers ◽  
Related Quality ◽  
Health Related

An Examination of the Developmental Impact of Continuing Destructive Parental Conflict on Young Adult Children

2017 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 175-189 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily Fozard ◽  
Peter Gubi
Keyword(s):  
Young Adult ◽  
Adult Children ◽  
Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis ◽  
Role Reversal ◽  
Parental Conflict ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Parent Child Relationships ◽  
Parent Child

This research investigates the impact of destructive parental conflict in continuously married parents, on young adult children. Four trainee or practicing counselors, who had personal experience of growing up in families in which there was continuing destructive parental conflict, were interviewed. The data were analyzed using interpretative phenomenological analysis. The findings resulted in four superordinate themes: feelings of loss, impact to family structure, trauma associated with the conflict, and impacts to personal and professional development, within which were 12 subordinate themes. Short-term impacts focused on mental health and self-esteem, and loss of security at home. Long-term impacts focused on future relationships, defensiveness, parent–child role-reversal, impacts to career, trauma, and parent–child relationships. The results demonstrate the necessity for support to be made available to children who are exposed to destructive parental conflict in parents who remain married, as well as to the adult children of continuing destructive parental conflict.

scholarly journals How Can Adult Children Influence Parents’ Long-Term Care Insurance Purchase Decisions?

2014 ◽  
Vol 57 (2) ◽  
pp. 292-299 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nina R. Sperber ◽  
Corrine I. Voils ◽  
Norma B. Coe ◽  
R. Tamara Konetzka ◽  
Jillian Boles ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Adult Children ◽  
Long Term Care ◽  
Purchase Decisions ◽  
Term Care ◽  
Long Term Care Insurance

scholarly journals Adult children stepping in? Long-term care reforms and trends in children's provision of household support to impaired parents in the Netherlands

2017 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 112-137 ◽  
Author(s):  
THIJS VAN DEN BROEK ◽  
PEARL A. DYKSTRA ◽  
ROMKE J. VAN DER VEEN
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Family Involvement ◽  
Gender Gap ◽  
Adult Children ◽  
Long Term Care ◽  
Panel Study ◽  
Term Care ◽  
Care Giving ◽  
Using Data

ABSTRACTRecent long-term care (LTC) reforms in the Netherlands are illustrative of those taking place in countries with a universalistic LTC model based on extensive provision of state-supported services. They entail a shift from de-familialisation, in which widely available state-supported LTC services relieve family members from the obligations to care for relatives in need, to supported familialism, in which family involvement in care-giving is fostered through support and recognition for families in keeping up their caring responsibilities. Using data from four waves of the Netherlands Kinship Panel Study (N = 2,197), we show that between 2002 and 2014 the predicted probability that adult children provide occasional household support to impaired parents rose substantially. Daughters more often provided household support to parents than did sons, but no increase in the gender gap over time was found. We could not attribute the increase in children's provision of household support to drops in the use of state-supported household services. The finding that more and more adult children are stepping in to help their ageing parents fits a more general trend in the Netherlands of increasing interactions in intergenerational families.

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