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Coresidence With Elderly Parents: A Comparative Study of Southeast China and Taiwan

Year: 2011

Type: article

Abstract: Using recent survey data from the Panel Study of Family Dynamics (PSFD) on 1,655 married persons born in 1964-1976 in southeastern China and Taiwan, we studied coresidence with elderly parents using a multinomial probit model for coresidence type and an ordered probit model for residential distance. The study yielded four findings: (a) Patrilocal coresidence was more prevalent in Taiwan than in China; (b) matrilocal coresidence was more prevalent in China; (c) practical factors mattered in both places; (d) in Taiwan only, a couple's economic resources facilitated breaking away from patrilocal coresidence. The findings suggest that, although economic development does not necessarily result in less traditional familial culture, personal economic resources may enable individual couples to deviate from tradition.

Source: Journal of Marriage and the Family

DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-3737.2010.00793.x

Authors: C. Y. Cyrus Chu, Yu Xie, Ruoh Rong Yu

Institutions: Institute of Economics, Academia Sinica, Academia Sinica, University of Michigan

Language: English

Topic: Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving

Subfield: Sociology and Political Science

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

Funders: National Institute on Aging, Fogarty International Center, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development

Awards: ECONOMIC REFORMS AND INTERGENERATIONAL SUPPORT IN CHINA, Research Training in Population Health in China and South Africa, Population Research Infrastructure Support