Early-Life Parent-Child Relationships and Adult Children's Support of Unpartnered Parents in Later Life.

ABSTRACT: OBJECTIVES:The proportion of older adults who are unpartnered has increased significantly over the past 25 years. Unpartnered older adults often rely on their adult children for support. Most previous studies have focused on proximal factors associated with adult children's support of their parents, while few have examined distal factors, such as parent-child relationships formed during childhood. This study fills the gap by investigating the direct and indirect associations between early-life parent-child relationships and adult children's upward transfers to unpartnered parents. METHOD:Data came from two supplements to the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, in which respondents were asked about their relationships with mothers and fathers before age 17 and their transfers of time and money

SUBMITTER: Lin IF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6566332 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature