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Title: Age-Condensed and Age-Gapped Families: Coresidency with Elderly Parents and Relatives in a Mature Women's Cohort, 1967-1995
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Caputo, Richard K. |
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Age-Condensed and Age-Gapped Families: Coresidency with Elderly Parents and Relatives in a Mature Women's Cohort, 1967-1995 Marriage and Family Review 29,1 (Spring 1999): 77-95. Also: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1300/J002v29n01_06 Cohort(s): Mature Women Publisher: Haworth Press, Inc. Keyword(s): Age and Ageing; Age at First Birth; Family Characteristics; Family Structure; Grandchildren; Intergenerational Patterns/Transmission; Mothers, Adolescent; Racial Differences; Residence; Women Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey, Mature Women's Cohort, this study found that not only is a sizable minority of mature women likely to reside with their aging parents and relatives in any given survey year, but that this trend increases over time. Unexpectedly, black women were found to be more likely than white women to reside in age-gapped families, signifying that they were more likely than white women to delay childbirth. Black women also were found to have greater frequencies and prevalence of residing in intergenerational families than white women. This pattern indicated, by extension, that intergenerational responsibilities might be a greater factor contributing to delayed childbirth for black women than was the case for white women. As expected, few aging parents or relatives were found in age-condensed families. The presence of grandchildren, rather than a respondent's own children, apparently accounted for this finding. This pattern suggested that, for maturing women who had been teenage mothers, the flow of intergenerational responsibilities proceeds more extensively in the direction of subsequent generations rather than toward previous generations. |
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Caputo, Richard K. "Age-Condensed and Age-Gapped Families: Coresidency with Elderly Parents and Relatives in a Mature Women's Cohort, 1967-1995." Marriage and Family Review 29,1 (Spring 1999): 77-95.
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