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Cohabiting adult children's transfers to parents in the United States

OBJECTIVE: This brief report presents national estimates of transfers of time and money from cohabiting adult children (ages 18–65) to their parents (own and in‐laws) to test whether cohabiting adults give differently from their counterparts. BACKGROUND: Previous US studies use data collected in the...

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Autor principal: Patterson, Sarah E.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wiley Subscription Services, Inc. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9937010/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36816473
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jomf.12879
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description OBJECTIVE: This brief report presents national estimates of transfers of time and money from cohabiting adult children (ages 18–65) to their parents (own and in‐laws) to test whether cohabiting adults give differently from their counterparts. BACKGROUND: Previous US studies use data collected in the late 1980s and mid‐1990s, when cohabitation was an emerging family form; they find mixed results. Rising rates of cohabitation and an aging population of parents who may rely on transfers from adult children necessitate updated estimates that can help develop the theory of institutionalization of cohabitation. METHOD: This study used the 2013 Panel Study of Income Dynamics Rosters and Transfers Module, a sample of US households (N = 6340), and logistic and negative binomial models to estimate the likelihood of giving any time or any money to parents by the respondent's union status, the amounts given, and parent type (own, in‐laws). RESULTS: Cohabitors were less likely to give time to their own parents than their never married counterparts, and gave fewer hours, but were more likely to give time and gave more hours than married adults. For financial transfers to own parents, cohabitors and married respondents gave similarly, but both were less likely to give any money than were single respondents. Cohabitators gave more hours to their in‐laws than married respondents. CONCLUSION: Cohabitors behave somewhere in‐between marital “greedy institution” norms and broader norms of solidarity with parents. More work should be done to understand how union status affects transfers to parents.
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spelling pubmed-99370102023-04-12 Cohabiting adult children's transfers to parents in the United States Patterson, Sarah E. J Marriage Fam Brief Reports OBJECTIVE: This brief report presents national estimates of transfers of time and money from cohabiting adult children (ages 18–65) to their parents (own and in‐laws) to test whether cohabiting adults give differently from their counterparts. BACKGROUND: Previous US studies use data collected in the late 1980s and mid‐1990s, when cohabitation was an emerging family form; they find mixed results. Rising rates of cohabitation and an aging population of parents who may rely on transfers from adult children necessitate updated estimates that can help develop the theory of institutionalization of cohabitation. METHOD: This study used the 2013 Panel Study of Income Dynamics Rosters and Transfers Module, a sample of US households (N = 6340), and logistic and negative binomial models to estimate the likelihood of giving any time or any money to parents by the respondent's union status, the amounts given, and parent type (own, in‐laws). RESULTS: Cohabitors were less likely to give time to their own parents than their never married counterparts, and gave fewer hours, but were more likely to give time and gave more hours than married adults. For financial transfers to own parents, cohabitors and married respondents gave similarly, but both were less likely to give any money than were single respondents. Cohabitators gave more hours to their in‐laws than married respondents. CONCLUSION: Cohabitors behave somewhere in‐between marital “greedy institution” norms and broader norms of solidarity with parents. More work should be done to understand how union status affects transfers to parents. Wiley Subscription Services, Inc. 2022-08-29 2023-02 /pmc/articles/PMC9937010/ /pubmed/36816473 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jomf.12879 Text en © 2022 The Author. Journal of Marriage and Family published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of National Council on Family Relations. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title Cohabiting adult children's transfers to parents in the United States
title_full Cohabiting adult children's transfers to parents in the United States
title_fullStr Cohabiting adult children's transfers to parents in the United States
title_full_unstemmed Cohabiting adult children's transfers to parents in the United States
title_short Cohabiting adult children's transfers to parents in the United States
title_sort cohabiting adult children's transfers to parents in the united states
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9937010/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36816473
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jomf.12879
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