Residential Differences in Filial Responsibility Expectations Among Older Persons1
作者:
Gary R. Lee,
Raymond T. Coward,
Julie K. Netzer,
期刊:
Rural Sociology
(WILEY Available online 1994)
卷期:
Volume 59,
issue 1
页码: 100-109
ISSN:0036-0112
年代: 1994
DOI:10.1111/j.1549-0831.1994.tb00524.x
出版商: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
数据来源: WILEY
摘要:
AbstractThis study examines variation in filial responsibility expectations‐the extent to which adult children are expected to assist and care for their aging parents‐among a sample of 440 older persons. The analysis focuses on the relationship of filial responsibility expectations to residential location and tests the hypothesis that older rural residents have higher expectations for assistance from their children than do older urbanites. Current residential location is found to have little impact on expectations, but older persons who were raised in rural areas, particularly on farms, have significantly higher expectations for filial assistance than do older persons from urban backgrounds. Possible consequences of these patterns for the transmission of expectations from parents to children are discus
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