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Title: Intergenerational relations in urban China: proximity, contact, and help to parents.

Citation Type: Journal Article

Publication Year: 1998

ISSN: 0070-3370

DOI: 10.2307/3004031

PMID: 9512914

Abstract: Although most older Chinese parents live with an adult son or daughter, most adult offspring do not live with parents. We examine the relations of these noncoresident offspring with parents in terms of proximity, frequency of contact, and exchange of help. Based on a 1993 random sample survey conducted in two major Chinese cities, we find that although rates of coresidence are high, noncoresident sons and daughters live close to parents, have frequent contact with their parents, and provide regular help to parents. Relationships with noncoresident sons and daughters are unaffected by whether parents coreside with another child. There is some evidence of closer relationships with sons than with daughters, but parents without a son receive as much help from all children as do parents with sons. The effects of these and other predictors are estimated in multivariate analyses, and results are interpreted in terms of the persistence or change of traditional family norms.

Url: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9512914

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Authors: Bian, Fuqin; Logan, John R.; Bian, Yanjie

Periodical (Full): Demography

Issue: 1

Volume: 35

Pages: 115-24

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