Children-in-law in caregiving families

Citation
Nd. Peters-davis et al., Children-in-law in caregiving families, GERONTOLOGI, 39(1), 1999, pp. 66-75
Citations number
40
Categorie Soggetti
Public Health & Health Care Science
Journal title
GERONTOLOGIST
ISSN journal
00169013 → ACNP
Volume
39
Issue
1
Year of publication
1999
Pages
66 - 75
Database
ISI
SICI code
0016-9013(199902)39:1<66:CICF>2.0.ZU;2-R
Abstract
Data were collected from 252 coresident caregiving daughters and daughters- in-law and their husbands. We hypothesized that biological children would g ive more care than children-in-law and that children-in-law would have very different caregiving experiences and resultant appraisals than biological children. Contrary to our hypotheses, we found that the experiences are ver y similar for biological children and children-in-law in caregiving familie s. We suggested that the important factor is not the relationship to the el der that has the impact-it is the quality of the relationship with the elde r that is consistently significant.