Geographic Mobility and Extended Family Cohesion

Litwak, Eugene

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“…Regular household help with personal care requires frequent face-to-face contact (Litwak 1960). Most studies on contact analyze the most important parent-child dyad, that is, the relationship with the oldest, the one living closest to the parent, the most supportive or the emotionally closest adult child (Rogerson et al 1993).…”

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Intergenerational contact beyond the dyad: the role of the sibling network

2008

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In this paper we aim to reach beyond the dyadic perspective on intergenerational contact and examine the influence of the sibling network on parent-child contact. We include aggregate sibling network characteristics as well as the adult child's position in the network vis-à-vis siblings, and use data from the Netherlands Kinship Panel Study (2002)(2003)(2004) NKPS; N = 4,601 dyads). Regarding aggregate network characteristics results show that having sisters, having stepsiblings, increasing geographical distance between siblings, and decreasing levels of network cohesion are associated with less contact per parent-child dyad. Regarding the position of the adult child vis-à-vis his or her siblings, results show that having geographically or emotionally closer siblings has a negative effect on parentchild contact. The impact of differences in emotional distance among siblings is stronger when the analyses are limited to parents in poor health. Suggestions for future research are made.

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“…Apart from geographic proximity (Litwak 1960), family size has been shown to be a strong determinant of intergenerational contact (Fokkema et al 2003;Tomassini et al 2004;Uhlenberg and Cooney 1990). Adult children with several siblings interact less frequently with their parents than those from small families.…”

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Intergenerational contact beyond the dyad: the role of the sibling network

2008

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“…Geographic proximity will also matter, and although potentially endogenous, one tends to find that intergenerational support (at least in time transfers) is more extensive if grandparents are living nearby (Ogawa and Ermisch, 1996;Hank and Buber, 2009). However, it is also argued that intergenerational support is not necessarily weakened by geographical mobility (e.g., Litwak, 1960).…”

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Grandparenting and Childbearing in the Extended Family

2012

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The paper analyses the impact of grandparenting on individuals' fertility behaviour using longitudinal data from eleven European countries. In particular, we focus on how siblings may share and compete for grandparents' time in terms of childcare. By considering different family scenarios, we show that availability of grandparenting play an important role in individuals' decision making for having children. Grandparenting is particularly important in the South of Europe where public childcare is limited and here we see a large impact of grandparenting on fertility.

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“…Many works on migration also stress the importance of longdistance ties between immigrants and their extended families, which serve as emotional, financial and practical support providers (among others: Bonvalet and Maison, 1999;Chamberlain, 1995;Litwak, 1960;Mason, 1999Mason, , 2004. There is also some evidence that individuals that frequently relocate invest little time in their local communities and are more likely to maintain close links with their distant families, rather than establish contacts with new neighbors (Collmer, 2002(Collmer, , 2005Pelizäus-Hoffmeister, 2001;Shklovski, 2007).…”

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Residential mobility and the spatial dispersion of personal networks: Effects on social support

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2012

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a b s t r a c tUsing a representative national sample of personal networks, this article explores how the spatial dispersion of networks, residential mobility and social support are linked. Three issues will be addressed here. Firstly, how is the spatial dispersion of personal networks related to individuals' social characteristics, network composition and residential mobility? Secondly, how do the spatial dispersion of networks, residential mobility and their combined effect influence the number and (thirdly) the structure of emotional support ties? Results showed that the extent of the support was affected neither by the geographical distribution of the networks nor by residential mobility. Living far from one's birthplace, however, exerted two distinct, and opposite effects on the support network structure. On the one hand, mobility led to high spatial dispersion of personal contacts, which in turn favored a sparsely knit network centered around the mobile individual. On the other hand, by controlling for the effect of distance between the contacts, we found that individuals that cited long-distance ties tended to be part of more transitive support networks than those that cited local ties. We interpreted the latter effect as evidence that transitive ties may survive greater spatial distances than intransitive ones. These findings are discussed in view of spatial mobility and social network research.

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Geographic Mobility and Extended Family Cohesion

Cited by 304 publications

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Intergenerational contact beyond the dyad: the role of the sibling network

Intergenerational contact beyond the dyad: the role of the sibling network

Grandparenting and Childbearing in the Extended Family

Residential mobility and the spatial dispersion of personal networks: Effects on social support

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