Adult children's responsiveness to parental needs during the pandemic

IF 2.7 1区 社会学 Q1 FAMILY STUDIES
I-Fen Lin, Emily E. Wiemers, Janecca A. Chin, Anna Wiersma Strauss, Judith A. Seltzer, V. Joseph Hotz
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Abstract

Objectives

Guided by the life-course principles of linked lives embedded in historical time and place, we investigated whether nonresident adult children provided financial and time assistance to parents in response to their needs during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Background

Adult children are an important source of support for older adults during crises, yet their ability to help parents may have been constrained during the pandemic.

Method

Data were extracted from the 2016, 2018, and 2020 waves of the Health and Retirement Study. We employed three analytic strategies. First, we examined how nonresident adult children responded to parental needs during the pandemic. Second, we compared the financial and time assistance received during the pandemic with earlier periods. Third, we assessed whether support patterns varied depending on the severity of the pandemic in places where parents lived. All analyses used linear probability models, adjusting for pre-pandemic characteristics.

Results

Parents facing economic hardship more often received money help and those experiencing difficulty buying food for nonfinancial reasons more often received time help from adult children compared to those without such challenges. Moreover, both financial and time assistance from adult children increased during the pandemic compared to pre-pandemic levels. Hardships increased the probability of receiving money and time help from adult children when parents lived in areas with a high level of pandemic severity.

Conclusion

Adult children became more responsive to parental needs during the COVID-19 pandemic, underscoring the importance of linked lives across generations during times of crisis.

大流行期间成年儿童对父母需求的反应
在嵌入历史时间和地点的生命历程原则的指导下,我们调查了在COVID-19大流行期间,非居民成年子女是否为父母提供了经济和时间上的帮助,以应对他们的需求。成年子女是危机期间老年人支持的重要来源,但在大流行期间,他们帮助父母的能力可能受到限制。方法数据取自2016年、2018年和2020年的健康与退休研究。我们采用了三种分析策略。首先,我们研究了大流行期间非居民成年子女如何应对父母的需求。其次,我们将疫情期间获得的财政和时间援助与早期进行了比较。第三,我们评估了在父母居住的地方,支持模式是否因疫情的严重程度而有所不同。所有分析都使用线性概率模型,并根据大流行前的特征进行了调整。结果与没有经济困难的父母相比,面临经济困难的父母更经常得到金钱帮助,而那些因非经济原因而购买食物有困难的父母更经常得到成年子女的时间帮助。此外,与大流行前相比,大流行期间成年子女提供的财政和时间援助都有所增加。当父母生活在流行病严重程度较高的地区时,困难增加了从成年子女那里得到金钱和时间帮助的可能性。结论:在2019冠状病毒病大流行期间,成年子女对父母的需求反应更积极,这凸显了危机时期各代人生活联系的重要性。
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期刊介绍: For more than 70 years, Journal of Marriage and Family (JMF) has been a leading research journal in the family field. JMF features original research and theory, research interpretation and reviews, and critical discussion concerning all aspects of marriage, other forms of close relationships, and families.In 2009, an institutional subscription to Journal of Marriage and Family includes a subscription to Family Relations and Journal of Family Theory & Review.
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