Competing Demands from Aging Parents and Adult Children in Two Cohorts of American Women
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4122271 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Emily E Wiemers (0009-0002-1535-9713, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics University of Massachusetts Boston), Suzanne M Bianchi (At the time of her death in November 2013, Dorothy Meier Chair in Social Equities and Distinguished Professor of Sociology University of California Los Angeles) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 41 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 127-146 |
| Publication date | 2015-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Population and Development Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0098-7921 • E-ISSN: 1728-4457 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1728-4457.2015.00029.x |
| PMID | 26594071 |
| OpenAlex | W2017741814 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 38 |
| References cited | 30 |
In late middle age, individuals may face competing demands on their time and financial resources from elderly parents and young adult children. This study uses the Panel Study of Income Dynamics to examine changes over time in the probability of having children and living parents for women aged 45 to 64. We compare two cohorts: those born in the 1920s and 1930s and those born in the 1940s and 1950s. We find that there has been a dramatic increase in the probability of having children and living parents and that this increase has been driven mainly by changes in life expectancy of the parent generation. We further examine transfers of money and co-residence for women in the later cohort. We find that while women may not give to parents and children concurrently, approximately 30 percent of them have provided support to both parents and children at some point in the past
Cohort · Demographic economics · Developmental psychology · Early adulthood · Economics · Fertility · Life expectancy · Panel Study of Income Dynamics · Population · Residence · Sociology · Young adult · Demography · Global Health Care Issues · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving · Medicine · Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies · Psychology · Gerontology
Working Women in the Sandwich Generation
Women’s Family Care Responsibilities, Employment and Health
Patterns of Giving to Family and Giving to Others in Midlife
Role of work‐to‐family spillover, generative concern, and gender on subjective well‐being in full‐time working adults
Role modeling or reciprocity? Dyadic intergenerational transfer analysis of efficacy and support
Acute effects of low versus high caffeine dose consumption on postural balance in middle-aged women
Grandparenting Children with Disabilities
Competing demands on adult children
Mental and physical health among ‘sandwich’ generation working-age adults in the United States
The costs of unpaid care
Stuck in the Middle
Sandwich generation’
A Vignette Study of Older Adults’ Preferences for Intergenerational Transfers in the Context of Competition Between Grandparents and Grandchildren in Rural China
Caring for Chronically Ill Older Adults
Routine Support to Parents and Stressors in Everyday Domains
The Older Sandwich Generation Across European Welfare Regimes
Sandwich Caregiving and Paid Work
The Impact of Demographic Change on Transfers of Care and Associated Well-being”
Caught in the middle in mid-life
The effects of adult children's gender composition on the care type and care network of ageing parents
The Role of Kinship in Racial Differences in Exposure to Unemployment
The Impact of Grandparental Death on the Fertility of Adult Children
Fraying Families
We’re Just Tired”
Wealth mobility and inequality
Functional disability and the role of children in U.S. older adults’ core discussion networks
Life-course generational placements and health and wellbeing in later life
Changing care provision in times of changing contexts
Uses of Panel Study of Income Dynamics Data in Research on Aging
Who Takes Care of Whom in the United States? Time Transfers by Age and Sex
The Family Safety Net of Black and White Multigenerational Families
Diversity and Dynamics in Care Networks of Older Americans
The Demography of Multigenerational Caregiving
Intensive Mothers, Cautionary Tale Fathers
Family Structure and Competing Demands From Aging Parents and Adult Children Among Middle-Aged People in China
A Decade of Research on Intergenerational Ties
Bringing Family Demography Back In
Structural Inequities in the Kin Safety Net
Who Provides Care? A Prospective Study of Caregiving Among Adult Siblings
Widening socioeconomic inequalities in US life expectancy, 1980–2000
Trends in the Health of the Elderly
Ageing populations
Transfer Behavior in the Health and Retirement Study
On the Frontier of Adulthood
Material Assistance from Families During the Transition to Adulthood
The effect of informal care on work and wages
The Division of Family Labor
Who Gets What and Why? Help Middle-Aged Adults Provide to Parents and Grown Children
Between elderly parents and adult children
Trends in Late-Life Activity Limitations in the United States
Trends in health of older adults in the United States
The Significance of Education for Mortality Compression in the United States
Growing Parental Economic Power in Parent–Adult Child Households
Socioeconomic Differences in Having Living Parents and Children
Demographic Foundations of Family Change
Grandparents Caring for Grandchildren
Help to Family and Friends
Golden Years? The Labor Market Effects of Caring for Grandchildren
Beyond the Nuclear Family
| Unique citing works | 38 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,45 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2026 (12) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 38 |