Helping older parents in Europe: the importance of grandparenthood, gender and care regime
dc.contributor.author | Herlofson, Katharina | |
dc.contributor.author | Brandt, Martina | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-12-04T10:11:53Z | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-12-10T08:56:03Z | |
dc.date.available | 2019-12-04T10:11:53Z | |
dc.date.available | 2019-12-10T08:56:03Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2019-10-13 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Herlofson, Brandt. Helping older parents in Europe: the importance of grandparenthood, gender and care regime. European Societies: The Official Journal of the European Sociological Association. 2019 | en |
dc.identifier.issn | 1461-6696 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1461-6696 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1469-8307 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10642/7880 | |
dc.description.abstract | In ageing societies, it is not uncommon to enter grandparenthood while one’s own parents are still living. Thus, a pertinent question is whether it matters for provision of help to parents if adult children have grandchildren they look after. Earlier studies addressing help to more generations conclude that providing help to one generation increases the likelihood of helping another, and not the contrary. Here, we investigate whether gender and welfare state context make a difference for this finding by using data from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe and the Norwegian Life course, Ageing and Generation study. The 14 countries included represent four different care regimes. Overall, we find that adult children who have grandchildren they look after on a weekly basis are more inclined to provide weekly help and care to parents compared to those without such frequent grandchild care responsibilities. However, the results suggest that gender and care regime matter. Helping more generations seems easier in some contexts than in others, and the contrasts across regimes are considerably greater for women than for men. When there are few alternatives to family care, many (women in particular) may have to prioritise which generation to help. | en |
dc.description.sponsorship | The research presented here was carried out with financial support from the Research Council of Norway (Norges Forskningsråd) [Grant N° 236997]. | en |
dc.language.iso | en | en |
dc.publisher | Taylor & Francis (Routledge) | en |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | European Societies;Published online 25 Nov 2019 | |
dc.rights | This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. | en |
dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ | |
dc.subject | Grandparenting | en |
dc.subject | Intergenerational relationships | en |
dc.subject | Parent care | en |
dc.subject | Sandwich generations | en |
dc.title | Helping older parents in Europe: the importance of grandparenthood, gender and care regime | en |
dc.type | Journal article | en |
dc.type | Peer reviewed | en |
dc.date.updated | 2019-12-04T10:11:53Z | |
dc.description.version | publishedVersion | en |
dc.identifier.doi | https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14616696.2019.1694163 | |
dc.identifier.cristin | 1756446 | |
dc.source.journal | European Societies: The Official Journal of the European Sociological Association | |
dc.relation.projectID | Norges forskningsråd 236997 |
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