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- Title
Assisting Parents and In-Laws: Gender, Type of Assistance, and Couples’ Employment.
- Authors
Chesley, Noelle; Poppie, Kyle
- Abstract
We use 1995 MIDUS data (n = 2,085) to assess whether the gender gap in help persists across different types of help (unpaid task assistance, emotional support, financial assistance) to parents and in-laws. We also examine whether joint employment patterns influence levels of help. Persistent gender differences are identified in levels of emotional support to parents and in-laws: Women spend more time than men giving this help. There are no gender differences in levels of unpaid task assistance or financial assistance to parents or in-laws. Individuals in single-earner couples, however, provide greater levels of unpaid task assistance to in-laws and financial assistance to parents than individuals in dual-earner couples. Furthermore, financial assistance to parents is positively linked to work hours.
- Subjects
FAMILY relations; PARENTS-in-law; SOCIAL support; WORKING parents; FAMILY-work relationship; INTERGENERATIONAL relations
- Publication
Journal of Marriage & Family, 2009, Vol 71, Issue 2, p247
- ISSN
0022-2445
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1741-3737.2009.00597.x