TIES THAT BIND--FAMILY STRUCTURE, SOCIAL SUPPORT & AGING

描述（改编自申请人摘要）：本研究将分析 婚姻史和亲属网络特征对社会的重要性 利用第一轮全国老年人状况调查， 家庭和家庭（NSFH 1）和威斯康星州纵向研究（WLS）， 包括第一轮和1975年的家庭信息 本研究 出于对未来日益增长的人口比例的影响的担忧， 美国人口中老年人的比例以及可能发生的变化 代际公共转移计划。 目前，家庭网络提供 对老年人的重要支持，可能会增加期望 在决策者中，他们将来会做得更多。 最近 研究表明，未来老年亲属网络的多样性日益增加， 这是由于婚姻和生育经历的差异更大。 的 关系的更大多样性意味着这些关系的质量发生了变化。 它 本研究的目的是检验亲属关系的质量， 老年人的社会支持。 R 03试点项目有四个目标。 第一个目标是 老年人潜在社会支持分析 父母，考虑到成年子女的可用性， 区分继子女和亲生子女 第二个目标是 年对老年父母的照顾和情感支持分析 考虑到父母的婚姻状况， 在孩子成长的过程中，无论成年孩子的 与父母的关系是一步或生物学的，并控制兄弟姐妹 大小和组成。 第三个目标是研究老年人 社会支持因性别、种族和阶级而异。 最后，第四个 R 03试点项目的目标是为 为将来的R 01应用做准备。 未来的应用程序将提出 将初步分析应用于其他数据（NSFH 2和健康和 退休调查（HRS）。 此外，所有微观数据的结果 分析将用于对老年人需求的宏观预测 以及2010-2040年潜在亲属网络的变化。

DESCRIPTION (adapted from the applicant's abstract): This study will analyze the importance of marital history and kin network characteristics to social support among the elderly using the first round of the National Survey of Families and Households (NSFH1) and the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study (WLS), including family information from the first and 1975 rounds. This study is motivated by concerns about the future impact of the increasing proportionate elderly share of the U.S. population and the likely changes to intergenerational public transfer program. Currently family networks provide important support to the elderly, and there may be increased expectations among policy makers that they will do even more in the future. Recent research suggests increasing diversity of future elderly kin networks, resulting from greater variation in marital and fertility experiences. The greater diversity of ties implies a change in the quality of those ties. It is the purpose of this study to examine the quality of kinship ties with regards to elderly social support. There are four objectives in this R03 pilot project. The first objective is an analysis of potential social support from the perspective of the elderly parent, taking into account the availability of adult children and distinguishing between step and biological children. The second objective is an analysis of care giving and emotional support to elderly parents from the perspective of the adult child, taking into account the parent's marital disruptions while the child was growing up, whether or not the adult child's relationship to the parent is step or biological, and controlling for sibling size and composition. The third objective is an examination of how elderly social support varies by gender, race and class. Finally, the fourth objective of the R03 pilot project is to provide the groundwork for the preparation of a future R01 application. The future application will propose applying the initial analyses to other data (NSFH2 and the Health and Retirement Survey (HRS)). In addition, the results from all the micro data analyses will be used to inform macro forecasts about the needs of the elderly and the variation in their potential kin networks in the years 2010-2040.