Caught in the middle in mid-life: provision of care across multiple generations
Caught in the middle in mid-life: provision of care across multiple generations
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DOI：
10.1017/s0144686x19000047
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发表时间：
2020-07-01
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影响因子：
2.5
通讯作者：
Gomez-Leon, Madelin
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作者：
Vlachantoni, Athina;Evandrou, Maria;Gomez-Leon, Madelin
随着英国大量婴儿潮一代步入中年，家庭跨越多代人，了解个人如何支持多代人的研究和政策意义越来越大。英国1958年全国儿童发展研究（National Child Development Study）的数据是在受访者55岁时收集的，用于研究中年女性和男性如何分配时间来照顾年迈的父母/公公婆婆和自己的成年子女，以及在照顾不同代人方面是否存在权衡。二元逻辑和多项回归模型区分了支持多代、仅支持一代或不支持一代的个体。三分之一的中年人被夹在多代人中间，至少有一位父母/岳父母和一位孙子在世。其中一半的人同时抚养两代人。照顾孙辈会增加赡养父母/公婆的可能性，反之亦然。对一代人的支持越强烈，支持另一代人的可能性就越大。良好的健康与照顾男女几代人有关，而非全时工作或根本不工作只与向妇女提供这种照顾有关。在维持有薪就业的同时，协助中年男子和妇女应对家庭支助需求，将是促进未来代际支助的关键。
With a large baby-boomer generation entering mid-later life in the United Kingdom, and families spanning across multiple generations, understanding how individuals support multiple generations is of increasing research and policy significance. Data from the British 1958 National Child Development Study, collected when respondents were aged 55, are used to examine how mid-life women and men allocate their time to support elderly parents/parents-in-law and their own adult children in terms of providing grandchild care, and whether there is a trade-off in caring for different generations. Binary logistic and multinomial regression models distinguish between individuals supporting multiple generations, only one generation or none. One-third of mid-life individuals are 'sandwiched' between multiple generations, by having at least one parent/parent-in-law and one grandchild alive. Among them, half are simultaneously supporting both generations. Caring for grandchildren increases the probability of also supporting one's parents/parents-in-law, andvice versa. More intense support for one generation is associated with a higher likelihood of supporting the other generation. Good health is associated with caring for multiple generations for men and women, while working part-time or not at all is associated with such care provision for women only. Facilitating mid-life men and women in responding to family support demands whilst maintaining paid employment will be critical in fostering future intergenerational support.