A decade of research on intergenerational ties: Technological, economic, political, and demographic changes

KL Fingerman, M Huo, KS Birditt - Journal of Marriage and …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Due to extended transitions to adulthood and declining marital rates, bonds between adults
and parents have grown increasingly salient in individuals' lives. This review organizes …

Physical and mental health of Chinese grandparents caring for grandchildren and great-grandparents

H Xu - Social Science & Medicine, 2019 - Elsevier
The increasing worldwide prevalence and intensity of grandparenting has attracted an
attention to its health implications for caregivers against the backdrop of population aging …

[HTML][HTML] Caring as curing: Grandparenting and depressive symptoms in China

SE Choi, Z Zhang - Social Science & Medicine, 2021 - Elsevier
Research on grandparenting (ie, caring for grandchildren) and mental health in Asian
contexts has been limited, despite the rapid growth of older adults who take care of …

Grandparents caring for grandchildren in rural China: Consequences for emotional and cognitive health in later life

M Silverstein, D Zuo - Aging & Mental Health, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
In rural China, where families serve as critical safety-nets for their vulnerable members,
grandparents play an essential role caring for the offspring of their migrant children …

'Save the children!': Governing left-behind children through family in China's Great Migration

X Gu - Current sociology, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Existing scholarship on the lives and wellbeing of China's left-behind children often frames
the issues as a function of their parents' migration, which leaves a significant gap in …

Caring for grandchildren and intergenerational support in rural China: A gendered extended family perspective

Z Cong, M Silverstein - Ageing & Society, 2012 - cambridge.org
This investigation examines how support from adult children is affected by their parents'
involvement in grandchild care. Instead of focusing on dyadic interactions, we adopt a …

The rise of maternal grandmother child care in urban Chinese families

C Zhang, VL Fong, H Yoshikawa, N Way… - Journal of Marriage …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Objective: This study explores the transformation of patrilineality in grandparents' child care
in China, which was traditionally oriented almost exclusively toward caring for sons' children …

Scoping review: intergenerational resource transfer and possible enabling factors

ELY Wong, JM Liao, C Etherton-Beer… - International Journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
We explore the intergenerational pattern of resource transfer and possible associated
factors. A scoping review was conducted of quantitative, peer-reviewed, English-language …

Positive youth development in rural China: The role of parental migration

M Wen, S Su, X Li, D Lin - Social Science & Medicine, 2015 - Elsevier
This study examined how parental rural-to-urban migration may affect left-behind children's
development in rural China. We used two-wave data collected on 864 rural youth age 10–17 …

Neighborhood and depressive symptoms: A comparison of rural and urban Chinese older adults

Y Wang, YC Chen, HW Shen… - The …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Background and Objectives Individual stressors of depressive symptoms in old age
are well identified, yet little is known about the neighborhood stressors of depressive …