Financial Responsibilities Toward Older Parents and Stepparents Following Divorce and Remarriage |
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Authors: | Jason D Hans Lawrence H Ganong Marilyn Coleman |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Family Studies, University of Kentucky, 315 Funkhouser Building, Lexington, KY 40506, USA;(2) Department of Human Development & Family Studies, University of Missouri, 314 Gentry Hall, Columbia, MO 65211, USA |
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Abstract: | We assessed beliefs about adult children’s responsibilities to financially assist parents and stepparents following later-life
divorce and remarriage using a multiple-segment factorial vignette with a national sample (N = 1,121). Ordered logistic regression analyses indicated that beliefs about financial responsibilities to older adults declined
after marital transitions, and responsibilities to assist stepparents were more tenuous than to parents. Beliefs about intergenerational
responsibilities were affected by adult children’s financial resources and by changes in older adults’ marital statuses. Kinship
obligation norms, the adult children’s financial resources, and reciprocity norms were the most common reasons used to explain
beliefs about responsibilities to financially assist older parents and stepparents, but these reasons became less salient
following divorce and remarriage of the older adult. After marital transitions, beliefs about intergenerational financial
responsibilities were more often based on the older adult’s culpability for being in a position of need, relationship quality,
and diminished kinship obligations. |
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Keywords: | Divorce Filial obligations Stepfamilies |
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