No Spouse, No Son, No Daughter, No Kin in Contemporary China: Prevalence, Correlates, and Differences in Economic Support.
Gender
Kinship
Social Network
Social Support
Journal
The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences
ISSN: 1758-5368
Titre abrégé: J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 9508483
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
04 10 2019
04 10 2019
Historique:
received:
16
09
2017
accepted:
21
04
2018
pubmed:
25
4
2018
medline:
18
6
2020
entrez:
25
4
2018
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
China's recent demographic and social changes might undermine the sustainability of its family-oriented system for elder care. We investigate kin availability among adults aged 45+ in contemporary China, with an emphasis on child gender. Using nationally representative survey data from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (2011), we examine the prevalence and correlates of lacking different kin types and combinations, and we test associations between kin availability and received economic support. Kinlessness is low in China (less than 2% lack a spouse/partner and children), but kin availability is patterned by gender, age group, and sociodemographic characteristics. More than twice as many older adults have no spouse/partner and no daughter (3.2%) as those who have no spouse/partner and no son (1.4%). Adults without close kin are disadvantaged across health, wealth, and economic support. In contrast to traditional expectations, we find that those with only daughters are more similar to those with mixed sex children, whereas those with only sons are more similar to those without children in receipt of economic support. Access to kin forms the basis of an emergent system of stratification in China, which will be amplified as cohorts with only one child age into older adulthood.
Identifiants
pubmed: 29688560
pii: 4983114
doi: 10.1093/geronb/gby051
pmc: PMC6777770
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
1453-1462Subventions
Organisme : NICHD NIH HHS
ID : P2C HD041025
Pays : United States
Organisme : NIA NIH HHS
ID : R01 AG030153
Pays : United States
Organisme : NIA NIH HHS
ID : RC2 AG036619
Pays : United States
Organisme : NIA NIH HHS
ID : R03 AG043052
Pays : United States
Informations de copyright
© The Author(s) 2018. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Gerontological Society of America. All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oup.com.
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