Shared Filial Responsibility: The Family as the Primary Caregiver

Matthews, Sarah H.; Rosner, Tena Tarler

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“…Moreover, they are more responsive to their parents' needs (Kalmijn and Saraceno 2008). Daughters are more likely to provide intensive personal care whereas sons tend to supply supplemental sporadic support, such as transportation, repairs or paperwork (Campbell and Martin-Matthews 2003;Matthews and Rosner 1988;Martin-Matthews and Campbell 1995;Miller and Cafasso 1992). Yet, the gendered support patterns have not been explained comprehensively.…”

Section: Welfare State Influences On Gender Inequalities In Intergenementioning

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Gendered support to older parents: do welfare states matter?

Brandt²,

2011

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The aim of this study is to examine the association of welfare state policies and the gendered organisation of intergenerational support (instrumental help and personal care) to older parents. The study distinguishes between support to older parents provided at least weekly, i.e. time-intensive and often burdening support, and supplemental sporadic support. Three policy instruments were expected to be associated with daughters' and sons' support or gender inequality in intergenerational support respectively: (1) professional social services, (2) cash-for-care payments and (3) legal obligations to provide or co-finance care for parents. The analyses based on the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe showed that daughters provided somewhat more sporadic and much more intensive support than sons throughout Europe. While about half of all children who sporadically supported a parent were men, this applied to only one out of four children who provided intensive support. Logistic multilevel models revealed that legal obligations were positively associated with daughters' likelihood of giving intensive support to parents but did not affect the likelihood of sons doing so. Legal obligations thus stimulate support in a gender-specific way. Both legal obligations and cash-forcare schemes were also accompanied by a more unequal distribution of involvement in intensive support at the expense of women. Social services, in contrast, were linked to a lower involvement of daughters in intensive support. In sum, the results suggest that welfare states can both preserve or reduce gender inequality in intergenerational support depending on specific arrangements.

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2011

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“…Another part of filial care research that relates to role theory is that concerning the roles between siblings. In a paper on a qualitative study in the US, Matthews and Rosner (1988) 30 pointed out that it is appropriate in research on parental care to focus on all the adult children, although as Brody (1978) states: "At every phase of the life cycle the family is the primary unit of service" (p. 14). Matthews and Rosner (1988) conducted a study on sisters and asked about the way in which they and their siblings divide up filial responsibilities.…”

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“…In a paper on a qualitative study in the US, Matthews and Rosner (1988) 30 pointed out that it is appropriate in research on parental care to focus on all the adult children, although as Brody (1978) states: "At every phase of the life cycle the family is the primary unit of service" (p. 14). Matthews and Rosner (1988) conducted a study on sisters and asked about the way in which they and their siblings divide up filial responsibilities. They found five types of parental care system: 1) routine, 2) backup, 3) circumscribed, 4) sporadic and 5) dissociation which explain, they claim, how siblings approach their caregiving responsibilities and how they negotiate them among themselves.…”

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Men do care! : A gender-aware and masculinity-informed contribution to caregiving scholarship

Wallroth

2016

Linköping Studies in Arts and Sciences

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In caregiving literature, it is often the female gender that has been the focus of attention, and in particular women's unpaid labor. Studies also tend to make comparisons between men's and women's caregiving, using men's caregiving experiences to show not only that women face greater burdens, but also that men's needs can be disregarded. This means that while gender analyses are not uncommon in the caregiving literature, gender tends to be equated with womanhood. The research problem that this dissertation addresses is therefore the gender bias that characterizes caregiving scholarship at present and the fact that this bias is impeding us from moving the debates on care and caregiving forward. The aim of the dissertation is twofold. Firstly, it attempts to contribute to the rectification of the gender bias in question by focusing on men's caregiving and answering the following research questions: What motivates men to provide care for their elderly parents? How do adult sons experience caregiving? What do adult sons think that care and caregiving are, i.e. what are their perspectives on care? Secondly, this dissertation also aims to explore whether a gender-aware and masculinity-informed perspective can be used to enhance our understanding of caregiving. Thus, through a phenomenological analysis of interviews with 19 caregiving adult sons and sons-in-law, this dissertation discusses how motives, experiences and perspectives, which have so far been interpreted as unique to women, are also matters that men talk about and consider important in caregiving. The dissertation argues therefore that much could be gained if we were to rectify the gender bias that characterizes the literature on family caregiving and explore caregiving men in the genderaware and masculinity-informed way that is lacking in this literature at present. Inspired by the debate within studies of masculinity, the dissertation argues that within the debate on care there is a hegemony of care which has so far tended to exclude men's perspectives on caregiving because literature on family caregiving has regarded women as the ideal caregivers. This dissertation shows that a gender-aware and masculinity-informed perspective on care can increase our understanding of family caregiving and contribute to the rectification of the gender bias that care research suffers from. Against this backdrop, it is proposed that caregiving men should not solely be regarded as empirically interesting. This is because they are an unexploited and theoretically profuse source of information about caregiving.

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“…Binnen families van hulpbehoevenden is er bijvoorbeeld veel interactie die uiteindelijk leidt tot een bepaalde verdeling van taken tussen volwassen kinderen, andere familieleden, buren en vrienden (Matthews 2002). In sommige gevallen leidt dit tot onenigheid tussen de mantelzorgverleners, maar vaker is er sprake van steun en waardering voor elkaar (Matthews en Rosner 1988). Overeenkomstig de literatuur is in het mantelzorgonderzoek gevraagd naar het voorkomen van ervaren steun, waardering en onenigheid.…”

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Shared Filial Responsibility: The Family as the Primary Caregiver

Cited by 223 publications

References 6 publications

Gendered support to older parents: do welfare states matter?

Gendered support to older parents: do welfare states matter?

Men do care! : A gender-aware and masculinity-informed contribution to caregiving scholarship

577 Mantelzorg: Een Overzicht Van De Steun Van En Aan Mantelzorgers

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