Is grandparental childcare socio-economically patterned? Evidence from the English longitudinal study of ageing.
Is grandparental childcare socio-economically patterned? Evidence from the English longitudinal study of ageing.
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祖父母的育儿方式在社会经济上是否存在模式？来自英国对衰老的纵向研究的证据。
DOI：
10.1007/s10433-021-00675-x
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发表时间：
2022-09
影响因子：
3.8
通讯作者：
Zaninotto, Paola
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作者：
Di Gessa, Giorgio;Glaser, Karen;Zaninotto, Paola
祖父母在为家庭提供儿童保育方面发挥着至关重要的作用。来自父母的定性研究和证据引起了人们的关注，即社会经济地位不利的祖父母更经常地照顾孙子，执行更密集的任务，并出于经济需要照顾孙子。然而，没有欧洲研究在人口水平上调查这些问题。这项研究是基于50岁以上的祖父母谁照顾孙子。数据来自全国代表性的英国老龄化纵向研究（2016/2017）的第8波。我们利用新收集的信息，孙子的护理频率，活动和护理的原因。使用多项式回归，我们首先研究了祖父母的社会经济特征（财富和教育）与孙子照顾频率的相关程度。第二，使用逻辑回归，我们调查了财富和教育是否与照顾孙子的活动和原因有关。总体而言，社会经济背景不利的祖父母更有可能提供更经常的托儿服务。同样，财富最低的四分之一的祖父母更多地参与动手活动（烹饪，接送孙子上学），而受过高等教育的祖父母更有可能帮助孙子做作业。最后，富裕的祖父母更有可能照顾孙子孙女，帮助父母并提供情感支持，并且不太可能报告拒绝提供照顾的困难。我们的研究结果表明，祖父母的育儿因社会经济地位而异，更密集的育儿活动不成比例地落在那些资源较少的人身上，这可能会加剧晚年现有的社会经济不平等。在线版本包含补充材料，可通过10.1007/s10433-021-00675-x获得。
Grandparents play a vital role in providing childcare to families. Qualitative research and evidence from parents raise concerns that it is grandparents who are socio-economically disadvantaged who provide grandchild care more regularly, perform more intensive tasks, and care out of financial necessity. However, no European studies have investigated these issues at population level. This study is based on grandparents aged 50+ who looked after grandchildren. Data are from wave 8 of the nationally representative English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (2016/2017). We exploit newly collected information on frequency of grandchild care, activities, and reasons for care. Using multinomial regressions, we first examined the extent to which grandparents’ socio-economic characteristics (wealth and education) are associated with frequency of grandchild care. Second, using logistic regressions, we investigated whether wealth and education are associated with activities and reasons for grandchild care. Overall, grandparents from disadvantaged socio-economic backgrounds were more likely to provide more regular childcare. Similarly, grandparents in the lowest wealth quartile were more involved in hands-on activities (cooking, taking/collecting grandchildren to/from school), whereas highly educated grandparents were more likely to help grandchildren with homework. Finally, better-off grandparents were more likely to look after grandchildren to help parents and provide emotional support and less likely to report difficulty in refusing to provide care. Our findings show that grandparental childcare varies by socio-economic status with more intensive childcare activities falling disproportionately on those with fewer resources, and this may act to exacerbate existing socio-economic inequalities in later life. The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s10433-021-00675-x.
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