ArticleThe journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences2020
Grandparents' Financial Contributions to Grandchildren in Rural China: The Role of Remittances, Household Structure, and Patrilineal Culture.
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- An integrative review on filial responsibility expectations in older parents.BMC geriatrics · 2025Pooled it
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- Reliability and validity of the Chinese version of the retrospective family unpredictability scale.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Health-related roles of older generations in families with inherited genetic conditions: a scoping review.Journal of community genetics · 2024Article
- Grandparental childcare and second births in China.PloS one · 2023Article
- Factors influencing the mutual-support willingness and needs among the rural elderly in Hunan Province, China: a cross-sectional study.BMC health services research · 2022Article
- Older Grandparents Caring for Grandchildren in Rural China: Cohort Change in Resources and Deficits Across 17 Years.The Public policy and aging report · 2022Article
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objectivesThis investigation examined predictors of monetary transfers made by grandparents for the benefit of their grandchildren in rural China. Predictors included family factors related to financial supply (remittances received from the parents of grandchildren), household demand (living in a skipped-generation household), and patrilineal culture (targeting sons and grandsons).
methodThe 2015 wave of the Longitudinal Study of Older Adults in Anhui Province was used to study financial transfers made by 831 grandparents to grandchildren in the families of 1,633 parents. Two-part random-effects regression was used to predict whether a transfer was made and the value of transfers, given that one occurred.
resultsGrandparents provided higher value transfers to grandchildren whose parents provided greater remittances and with whom they coresided in skipped-generation households. The likelihood of making a transfer fully followed the male lineage, and was greatest to grandson-only families in which parents were first-born sons. DISCUSSION: Results show that economic, household, and cultural factors are independently associated with the largesse of grandparents. We conclude that grandparents' economic contributions to grandchildren in rural China are shaped by family demands in a highly mobile society, intergenerational interdependence, and a persistent patrilineal gender system that reaches to the level of grandchildren.
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