Family Ties - Enduring Relations between Parents and Their Grown Children

While many studies focus on the impact of social change on younger generations, Family Ties deals comprehensively with family relationships over a longer period of the life cycle and reveals misconceptions about grown children caring for their aging parents. John R. Logan and Glenna D. Spitze offer conclusive evidence that relationships between parents and their adult children remain intact and challenge other myths of isolation and neglect of the older generation. The authors reveal that parents are not dependent on help from their grown children, as was previously assumed; in fact they contribute more assistance than they receive until the age of seventy-five. Also, while daughters are still the dominant care-givers, other forms of support like visiting and providing transportation are given almost equally by sons and daughters.

Summary

Presents a look at the way relationships between parents and their adult children remain strong in the midst of social change.

Product details

• Authors: John Logan, John R. Logan, Glenna D. Spitze
• Publisher: Temple University Press,U.S.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.09.1996
• EAN: 9781566394710
• ISBN: 978-1-56639-471-0
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Family; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; Ratgeber für Eltern, Ratgeber: Familie und Partnerschaft