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Marital Status, Competing Demands, and Role Priorities of Parent-Caring Daughters

Marital Status, Competing Demands, and Role Priorities of Parent-Caring Daughters This research compares the perceptions of 522 adult daughters in five marital status groups onthe significance of marital status for parent caregiving. The married women considered supportfrom husbands and children a great benefit for caregiving, but the price of such support iscompetition between the demands of caregiving and obligations to family. For the nonmarriedwomen, not having such competing demands is considered an advantage, but the cost is havingless social support. To further explore competition between parent care and commitments to selfand family, a subsample of respondents ranked priorities in their lives. Married women rankedhusbands and children as first priorities; never-married women ranked care of elders first. In the caregiving context, marital status affects strain, support, and the evaluation of role priorities. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Applied Gerontology SAGE

Marital Status, Competing Demands, and Role Priorities of Parent-Caring Daughters

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SAGE
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0733-4648
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1552-4523
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10.1177/073346489501400402
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Abstract

This research compares the perceptions of 522 adult daughters in five marital status groups onthe significance of marital status for parent caregiving. The married women considered supportfrom husbands and children a great benefit for caregiving, but the price of such support iscompetition between the demands of caregiving and obligations to family. For the nonmarriedwomen, not having such competing demands is considered an advantage, but the cost is havingless social support. To further explore competition between parent care and commitments to selfand family, a subsample of respondents ranked priorities in their lives. Married women rankedhusbands and children as first priorities; never-married women ranked care of elders first. In the caregiving context, marital status affects strain, support, and the evaluation of role priorities.

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Journal of Applied GerontologySAGE

Published: Dec 1, 1995

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