From the Empty Nest To Family Dissolution: Life Course Transitions Into Old Age

Chudacoff, Howard P.; Hareven, Tamara Κ.

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“…For their urban sample, however, Chudacoff and Hareven (1979) found so little involvement by elderly females in the labor force that they do not provide any discussion of it. The economic support for most households in the study community in 1900 was farming.…”

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“…Smith and his colleagues (Smith, 1978(Smith, , 1979Smith, Dahlin and Friedberger, 1979;Dahlin, 1980), for example, used a national sample selected from the 1880 and 1900 census manuscripts to provide an indepth description of the living arrangements, life-course changes and family life of the elderly. Chudacoff and Hareven (1978and Hareven ( , 1979 provided an analysis of life-course changes of the elderly household population in Providence, Rhode Island, in the period from 1865 to 1900. In addition, there is also research that seeks to understand the changes the elderly have encountered in household status between 1900 and the present.…”

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“…Chudacoff and Hareven (1979) state the rationale for using the life-course approach in the analysis of the elderly and their households:…”

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“…This analysis is based on cross-sectional data from the 1900 census manuscripts of one rural community and a 1980 census survey of the same community. By breaking down the information available in these sources, the study is able to examine the life-course of the elderly for the important aspects of retirement, economic self-support, marital status, household headship, and the coresidence of children (Elder, 1977;Chudacoff and Hareven, 1979). While the life-course approach is used, no claim is made that the materials in this paper constitute a complete lifecourse analysis as discussed by Elder. Though the goals of this study are limited by the data, its basic approach follows Elder: &dquo;In lieu of age-at-event information, a rough estimation of the temporal structure of life events in cohorts can be achieved by comparing the distribution of persons who have made a transition (such as marriage) by age category in each cohort&dquo; (Elder, 1977:300).~…”

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Rural Elderly Household Life-Course Transitions, 1900 and 1980 Compared

Arcury

1986

Journal of Family History

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The changing household status of the elderly has become an important policy and research question. Using the life-course approach this paper compares elderly household status and elderly household composition of a rural community in 1900 and 1980 better to elucidate historical change in a rural context. To show specific rural characteristics, the 1900 and 1980 data are further compared to available national and urban information. The rural elderly household life-course in 1900 differs in several characteristicsfrom its urban and national counterparts; by 1980, however, the situation in the rural community differs little from that in the national population.

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“…Chudacoff and Hareven (1979) state the rationale for using the life-course approach in the analysis of the elderly and their households:…”

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Rural Elderly Household Life-Course Transitions, 1900 and 1980 Compared

Arcury

1986

Journal of Family History

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“…To give some other examples of the evidence against the modernization theory: A number of studies demonstrated that the negative characterization of the old grew from some independent cultural, religious, and intellectual sources, not from industrialization per se (Fischer 1977;Achenbaum 1978;Haber 1983;Cole 1992). Historical studies on the family rejected the notion that industrialization and urbanization had brought a discontinuous transformation in the family structure and household relationship Hareven 1978, 1979;Hareven 1979;Smith 1979). It is also suggested that the establishment of public welfare programs in the United States came later as compared to other industrialized countries in Europe because the elderly in America were better-off and more independent thanks to high level of savings and other private devices of old-age security such as lifeinsurance and industrial pensions (Weaver 1983;Sutch 1987, 1993;Carter and Sutch 1996a).…”

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Labor Market Status of Older Males in the United States, 1880-1940

Lee¹

2003

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This paper examines the labor market status of older males in the era of industrialization, focusing on the question of how the extent of pressure toward retirement varied across different occupations, and how it changed over time. A comparison of hazard of retirement across occupations shows that men who had better occupations in terms of economic status and work conditions were less likely to retire than were those with poorer jobs. This result tends to reject the recent view that retirement was more voluntary than forced as early as a century ago. The difficulty faced by older workers in the labor market, as measured by the relative incidence of long-term unemployment, was relatively severe among craftsmen, operatives, and salesmen. In constrast, aged farmers, professionals, managers, and proprietors appear to have fared well in the labor market. The pattern of shifts in the occupational structure that occurred between 1880 and 1940 suggests that industrialization had brought a growth of the sectors in which the pressure toward departure from employment at old ages was relatively strong.

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Empty Nest

Mitchell

2016

Encyclopedia of Family Studies

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The term “empty nest” is commonly used to refer to the situation where children have grown up and left the parental home. This situation may involve a reorganization of parental roles and is commonly assumed to create a related condition known as the empty nest syndrome, which is purported to affect mothers more than fathers. Historically, the empty nest phase of the family life cycle was relatively rare or of short duration. With increased longevity and lower fertility rates, parents began to expect an extended postparental and postretirement period. In contemporary times, the transition to the empty nest is less linear or permanent since many young adult children return home. This countertrend of refilled nests is largely attributed to economic and other sociodemographic shifts which have delayed the independence of young adults in addition to other family transitions over the life course. Cross‐cultural and other studies also highlight diversity in empty nest experiences by psychological and relational factors, ethnic background, social class, gender, and regional locale.

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From the Empty Nest To Family Dissolution: Life Course Transitions Into Old Age

Cited by 64 publications

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Rural Elderly Household Life-Course Transitions, 1900 and 1980 Compared

Rural Elderly Household Life-Course Transitions, 1900 and 1980 Compared

Labor Market Status of Older Males in the United States, 1880-1940

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