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The Association of Gender, Sibling Network Composition, and Patterns of Parent Care by Adult Children
Raymond T. Coward
University of Florida
Jeffrey W. Dwyer
University of Florida
Based on matched data from the 1982 National Long-Term Care Survey and the National Survey of Informal Caregivers, this article explores the degree to which separating adult children (N = 3,742) by the composition of their sibling network (i.e., only children, single-gender networks, and mixed-gender networks) provides insight into the association between gender and patterns of parent-care. Caregiving participation was calculated as a proportion of the availability of all children of a specific gender. The data reveal that, within all sibling network categories, daughters were more likely than sons to be providing care to an impaired parent; however, the repercussions of being a caregiver were not similarly uniform. Specifically, sons and daughters from only-child and single-gender networks reported a similar number of hours per day spent in parent-care and experienced comparable levels of stress and burden. In contrast, daughters from mixed-gender networks reported significantly higher levels of stress and burden and more hours per day spent caregiving than sons. These findings demonstrate that differentiating children by sibling network type does offer some clarity to our understanding of the complex association between gender and patterns of parent-care.
Research on Aging, Vol. 12, No. 2,
158-181 (1990)
DOI: 10.1177/0164027590122002
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