Social support to parents-in-law: The interplay of gender and kin hierarchies

Journal of Marriage and Family

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 396-403

  Lee, Eunju ^a   Spitze, Glenna ^a   Logan, John R ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Adult children; Aging parents; In law relations; Parents in law

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038011853     PISSN: 00222445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-3737.2003.00396.x     Document Type: Article

References (19)

1. Agresti, A., & Liu, I. (2001). Strategies for modeling a categorical variable allowing multiple category choices. Sociological Methods & Research, 29, 403-434.
2. Allen, K. R., Blieszner, R., & Roberto, K. A. (2000). Families in the middle and later years: A review and critique of research in the 1990s. Journal of Marriage and the Family, 62, 911-926.
3. Di Leonardo, M. (1987). The female world of cards and holidays: Women, families, and the work of kinship. Signs: Journal of Culture and Society, 12, 440-453.
4. Fischer, C. (1992). America calling: A social history of the telephone to 1940. Berkeley: University of California Press.
5. Fischer, L. R. (1983). Mothers and mothers-in-law. Journal of Marriage and the Family, 45, 187-192.
6. Goetting, A. (1990). Patterns of support among in-laws in the United States: A review of research. Journal of Family Issues, 11, 67-90.
7. Kivett, V. R. (1989). Mother-in-law and daughter-in-law relations. In J. A. Mancini (Ed.), Aging parents and adult children (pp. 17-32). Lexington, MA: Lexington Books.
8. Komarovsky, M. (1964). Blue-collar marriage. New York: Random House.
9. Liang, K., & Zeger, S. L. (1986). Longitudinal data analysis using generalized linear models. Biometrika, 73, 13-22.
10. Logan, J. R., & Spitze, G. D. (1996). Family ties: Enduring relations between parents and their grown children. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
11. Lopata, H. Z. (1999). In-laws and the concept of family. Marriage and Family Review, 28, 161-172.
12. Merrill, D. M. (1993). Daughters-in-law as caregivers to the elderly. Research on Aging, 15, 70-91.
13. Rossi, A. S., & Rossi, P. H. (1990). Of human bonding: Parent-child relations across the life course. New York: Aldine de Gruyter.
14. Serovich, J. M., & Price, S. J. (1994). In-law relationships: A role theory perspective. International Journal of Sociology of the Family, 24, 127-146.
15. Silverstein, M., & Litwak, E. (1993). A task-specific typology of intergenerational family structure in later life. The Gerontologist, 33, 258-264.
16. Spitze, G., Logan, J., Deane, G., & Zerger, S. (1994). Adult children's divorce and intergenerational relationships, Journal of Marriage and the Family, 56, 279-293.
17. Stoller, E. P. (1983). Parental caregiving by adult children. Journal of Marriage and the Family, 45, 851-858.
18. Waite, L. J., & Harrison, S. C. (1992). Keeping in touch: How women in mid-life allocate social contacts among kith and kin. Social Forces, 70, 637-655.
19. Walker, A. J. (2000). Refracted knowledge: Viewing families through the prism of social science. Journal of Marriage and Family, 62, 595-608.