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Older parents' expectations for filial support
Journal article

Older parents' expectations for filial support

Abstract

A measure of general filial obligation expectations is presented. With data from a representative sample aged 70 and older, we show that generalized expectations for support from adult children are not patterned systematically by sociodemographic factors or by health needs of the older respondents. A typology is presented which relates expectations for help to judgments of the level received. This typology is meaningfully related to social …

Authors

Marshall VW; Rosenthal CJ; Daciuk J

Journal

Social Justice Research, Vol. 1, No. 4, pp. 405–424

Publisher

Springer Nature

Publication Date

December 1987

DOI

10.1007/bf01048385

ISSN

0885-7466