ArticleDemography2022
The Strength of Parent-Adult Child Ties in Biological Families and Stepfamilies: Evidence From Time Diaries From Older Adults.
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- Whose children matter? Multigenerational family complexity and late-life divorce in Sweden.European journal of ageing · 2026Article
- The Future Availability of Family Caregivers: Implications for Late-Life Care Gaps.Population research and policy review · 2026Article
- The Impact of Stepfamily Structure on Older Parents' Frequency of Contact With and Care Receipt From Adult Biological and Stepchildren in the Netherlands.The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · 2025Article
- Race and ethnic differences in step- versus biological parent support to adult children.Journal of marriage and the family · 2024Article
- Stepfamily Variation in Parent-Child Relationship Quality in Later Life.Journal of marriage and the family · 2024Article
- The Changing Demography of Late-Life Family Caregiving: A Research Agenda to Understand Future Care Networks for an Aging U.S. Population.The Gerontologist · 2024Article
- The impact of intergenerational support on social participation patterns of older adults in rural China.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
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Abstract
We examine older partnered parents' time spent with adult children in biological and step families, treating time together as an indication of relationship strength. Using a unique national sample of U.S. time diaries from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, we investigate time with all adult children combined and with each adult child. We find that time together depends on family structure and parent-adult child dyadic relationship type embedded in family structure. In analyses of all adult children combined, an older parent is more likely to spend time with adult children in biological families than in stepfamilies only when there is no shared biological child in the stepfamily. In dyadic analyses, a parent's tie with an adult child who is a biological child of both partners is stronger in stepfamilies than in biological families. Moreover, among stepfamilies, ties are not uniformly stronger with biological children relative to stepchildren; differences emerge only in more complex families when each partner has biological children from previous relationships. Our findings challenge the view that ties with older parents are always weaker with stepchildren in stepfamilies and point to the importance of considering parent-child relationships in the broader family context.
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