Parent Care as a Normative Family Stress

Changes in Contact and Support Within Intergenerational Relationships in the Netherlands: a Cohort and Time-Sequential Perspective

“…The idea that contact and support decline over time is genuine; however, it may only hold for certain periods in one's life, such as when children go through the transition from young adulthood to mature adulthood and become more independent. When comparing our two cohorts, we find no evidence for the myth of family decline, confirming, the reasoning that the ''good old days'' are not earlier periods in our social history, but a period in the history of each individual and family (Brody, 1985). The combination of a cohort and longitudinal analysis in this study has allowed us to study intergenerational relationships from different perspectives.…”

Does It Hurt to Care? Caregiving, Work-Family Conflict, and Midlife Well-Being

“…Population estimates of caregiving now make it clear that the caregiving role is not a rare life course event (Marks, 1996;Stone, Cafferata, & Sangl, 1987). The prevalence of caregiving for the frail and disabled peaks for midlife adults when about one in five women and men are providing some degree of care (Marks, 1996;Stone et al, 1987), bringing about particular concern for middle-aged women and men "in the middle" of considerable role responsibilities to multiple generations of family members, employment, and community (Brody, 1981(Brody, , 1985(Brody, , 1990. The prevalence of midlife caregiving responsibility for elders is only expected to increase, too, as we become ever more an "aging" and "aged" society (Coward, Horne, & Dwyer, 1992).…”

Ethical Dimensions and Filial Caregiving

“…Over the past decade a substantial body of research has addressed the stress process and the consequences of providing care to elderly relatives (Brody, 1985;Pearlin 1989;Pearlin, Mullan, Semple, & Skaff, 1990;Aneshensel, Pearlin, Mullan, Zarit, & Whitlatch, 1995;McCarty, 1996;Raschick & Ingersoll-Dayton, 2004; United States Department of Health & Human Services, 2001). Despite this extensive literature on elder family caregiving, stress process, and health outcomes, little has been said regarding ethical dimensions of filial responsibility for older family members and their perception of moral demands.…”