Farewell to Moms? Maternal Contact for Seven Countries in 1986 and 2001
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2283194 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Judith Treas (University of California, Irvine, corresponding author), Zoya Gubernskaya (0000-0002-3381-6589, University of California, Irvine) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 74 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 297-311 |
| Publication date | 2012-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Marriage and the Family (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-2445 • E-ISSN: 1741-3737 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1741-3737.2012.00956.x |
| OpenAlex | W2141658836 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 23 |
| References cited | 48 |
Challenging the popular narrative of the long-run decline of the extended family, contemporary studies of intergenerational relations insist that the ties between adult children and their parents are increasing in importance. Although research documents a decline in multigenerational households, there is little empirical evidence on changes over time in other dimensions of intergenerational solidarity. Drawing on 1986 and 2001 data from the International Social Survey Programme, the authors analyzed trends in maternal contact in 7 Western countries: (a) Australia, (b) Austria, (c) Germany (West), (d) Great Britain, (e) Hungary, (f) Italy, and (g) the United States (N = 7,578). They found no evidence that adult children's contact with mothers became less frequent. In particular, contacts that do not require face-to-face interaction increased, consistent with the diffusion of cell phones and Internet use over the period. Although theorizing points to demographic developments as driving trends in intergenerational cohesion, changes in population composition played only a minor role
Demographic economics · Economics · Face (sociological concept · Geography · Narrative · Political science · Population · Social science · Sociology · Solidarity · Demography · Family Dynamics and Relationships · Gender Studies · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving · Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies · Psychology
Close To You? How Parent–Adult Child Contact Is Influenced by Family Patterns
The Relationship of Age to Personal Network Size, Relational Multiplexity, and Proximity to Alters in the Western United States
Stability and Change in Intergenerational Family Relations Across Two Decades
Perceived Discipline Consistency in Parent–Child Relationships During Emerging Adulthood
Sharing Lives
Spatially Contingent Contact
Exploring Communication Types
Multigenerational social support in the face of the Covid ‐19 pandemic
Ethnoracial disparities in intergenerational coresidence among Canadian millennial
Long‐term trends in intergenerational proximity
Contact between parents and adult children
Intergenerational Contact in European Transnational Families
Intergenerational Solidarity in Native and Migrant Families in Germany
Incorporating Immigrants
Changes in Individual Sibling Relationships in Response to Life Events
Nearness of Adult Children
Intergenerational support during the rise of mobile telecommunication in Indonesia
The Long-Term Impact of Family Experiences in Adolescence on Mother-Child Relationships in Early Adulthood
Adolescent Intergenerational Cohesiveness and Young Adult Proximity to Mothers
Contact with Parents and Parents-in-Law, Gender, and Marital Satisfaction in Korea
Call Home? Mobile Phones and Contacts With Mother in 24 Countries
Gendering digital labor
Intermarriage and mother-child relationships
Elderly Parents and the Geographic Availability of their Adult Children
Transfer Behavior in the Health and Retirement Study
Contacts between elderly parents and their children in four European countries
Interaction and Living Arrangements of Older Parents and their Children
Decomposing differences in the first moment
Sample Selection Bias as a Specification Error
The Blinder–Oaxaca Decomposition for Linear Regression Models
An Efficient Method of Estimating Seemingly Unrelated Regressions and Tests for Aggregation Bias
Family and social network
Family and Kinship in East London
Intergenerational transfers of time and money in European families
Family Ties and Aging
Change and Stability in Parent–Child Contact in Five Western Countries
Lost solidarity’ or ‘changed solidarity’
Reassessing the decline in parent-child old-age coresidence during the twentieth century
Does Distance Matter in the Age of the Internet
Reciprocity in Parent–Child Exchange and Life Satisfaction among the Elderly
A Century of Demographic and Cultural Change in Western Europe
Proximity and Contacts Between Older Parents and Their Children
Intergenerational Family Relations in Adulthood
The Family as a Unity of Interacting Personalities
Demographic Foundations of Family Change
Geographic Mobility and Extended Family Cohesion
The Decline of Intergenerational Coresidence in the United States, 1850 to 2000
Does intergenerational social support influence the psychological well-being of older parents? The contingencies of declining health and widowhood
Contact between Adult Children and Their Parents in Great Britain 1986-99
Educational Inequality and Family Relationships
Perceived Instrumental Support Exchanges in Relationships between Elderly Parents and Their Adult Children
Coresidence Beliefs in American Society. 1973 to 1991
Sibling Structure and Intergenerational Relations
Intergenerational Solidarity in Aging Families
Affection, Social Contact, and Geographic Distance between Adult Children and Their Parents
Kinkeeping in the Familial Division of Labor
Of Human Bonding
Keeping in Touch
Intergenerational Support to Aging Parents
The Elderly and their Families, 1979-94
Till Marriage Do Us Part
Beyond the Nuclear Family
| Unique citing works | 23 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,92 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2026 (13) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 23 |