Demographic changes in who becomes a parent, how many children parents have, and the
marital statuses of parents and children affect the extent to which parents and adult children …

BACKGROUND: More than 16 million men in the United States are acting in the role of
family caregiver. Men are usually viewed as not being caring simply because they provide …

Elderly people with functional limitations are predominantly cared for by family members.
Women–spouses and daughters–provide most of this care work. In principle, gender …

The aim of this study is to examine the association of welfare state policies and the
gendered organisation of intergenerational support (instrumental help and personal care) to …

This article uses recent data from the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study (N= 5,220) to explore
gender differences in the extent to which adults in their 50s and 60s provide informal help to …

Previous research has shown that women providing family care tend to decrease paid work.
We take the opposite perspective and examine how current and previous family care tasks …

The overall purpose of this study was to explore the lived experiences of sandwich
generation (SG) women and the influence multigenerational caregiving had on their health …

This study analyzes the unique datasets of the Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity
Survey using logistic regression and controlling for various covariates. Our analyses clearly …

The authors investigated patterns of support exchanges between Korean adult children and
their parents and parents‐in‐law, gender differences in these patterns, and implications of …

It is presumed that happiness, and its associated positive emotions, signal to the individual
that an adaptive problem has been solved, thus allowing her to shift attention to other …