The micropolitics of care in relationships between aging parents and adult children: individualism, collectivism, and power

Article Abstract:

Aging parents in collectivist families receive higher levels of care than those in individualist families. However, this is associated with a loss of power. It is more common for aging parents in collectivist families to avoid conflict and to put aside their own interests in favour of their children's. It appears that it is not sufficient to subscribe to collectivist values of filial responsibility to bring about conflict-free caregiving relations across generations.

Psychological aspects, Intergenerational relations

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Fertility of Chinese immigrants in the U.S.: testing a fertility emancipation hypothesis

Article Abstract:

The fertility emancipation hypothesis posits that Chinese women's fertility, limited by the one-child policy in the People's Republic of China, will increase once they emigrate. Results of a study found evidence supporting this hypothesis. Chinese women from China have lower fertility than those from other countries. However, women from China experience more childbirths than other Chinese women upon immigration as a result of their accelerated US fertility rate.

Sexual behavior, Social aspects, Chinese, Chinese (Asian people), Fertility, Human, Human fertility, Emigration and immigration

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'The normal American family' as an interpretive structure of family life among grown children of Korean and Vietnamese immigrants

Article Abstract:

The ways that the children of Korean and Vietnamese immigrants describe family life are examined, based on in-depth interviews. Respondents often invoked the image of the 'normal American family' as an interpretive framework in providing meaning in their own family life. With regard to filial are, respondents depended on favorable images of close family ties linked with Asian immigrants.

Research, Immigrants, Family, Family life surveys

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