Perceived Obligations of Remarried Households to Provide Financial Assistance to Younger Family Members

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to examine perceived obligations of stepparents to provide financial assistance to adult stepchildren. Building on previous research, this study examined both contextual and ideological variables that may be related to perceptions of normative obligations. College student participants (N = 218) perceived higher levels of obligations to adult stepchildren whose financial need was not their fault as compared to adult stepchildren who were perceived as responsible for having financial needs. Also, perceptions of obligations were negatively related to ideologies consistent with traditional beliefs about marriage and with familism. This study highlights the need for more research and the need for policymakers to attend to how diversity in family structures is likely related to differences in intergenerational transfers.

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“…Several studies in the literature have studied the financial needs of individuals concerning remarried households (Killian and Ferrell, 2006); older people (Ritch and Brennan, 2010); consumers' (Guo et al, 2013); married women (Mimura, 2014); survivors of intimate partner violence (Hetling et al, 2015); homelessness (Griffith et al, 2015); homelessness (Griffith et al, 2015); students' studying abroad (Whatley, 2017); female entrepreneur (Rita et al, 2017); psychiatric outpatients (Kealy et al, 2018); cancer survivors (Zheng et al, 2020); informal saving groups (Wambua and Wamuyu, 2020); mobile financial services (Saxena and Mokashi Punekar, 2020); household gender dynamics (Souza, 2021); retirees (Chambers et al, 2021); needs of the family of children with autism spectrum disorder (Khara et al, 2021); paid paternal need (Siregar et al, 2021); and policy surrender and loan activity (Cole and Fier, 2021). Other studies, such as Browning (2000), focused on the saving behavior of households and stated that the income distribution within the household influences the level of savings and time path of consumption.…”