The 'sandwich generation': Women caring for parents and children

Monthly Labor Review

Volumn 129, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 3-9

  Pierret, Charles R ^a  

^a BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS   (United States)

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References (11)

1. Russell A. Ward and Glenna Spitze, "Sandwiched Marriages: The implications of Child and Parent Relations for Marital Quality in Midlife," Social Forces, vol. 77, no. 2, 1988, pp. 647-66.
2. "In the Middle: A Report on Multicultural Boomers Coping with Family and Aging Issues," AARP, Washington, Dc, July 2001.
3. Steven K. Wisensale, "Toward the 21st Century: Family Change and Public Policy," Family Relations, vol. 41, no. 4, 1994, pp. 417-22.
4. The discussion that follows borrows quite liberally from the National Longitudinal Surveys Young Women Users' Guide 2001 (Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2001).
5. Respondents were asked to identify their parents (parents-in-law) by naming the male and female individuals who "played the most important role in raising you (your husband)." This might miss certain important parental relationships (for example, biological fathers when one was raised by a stepfather, or stepmothers who married one's father later in life and have survived him), but this limitation was necessary within the structure of the questionnaire.
6. The survey also collected transfers from parents and in-laws, but this analysis does not use those data.
7. If a respondent had more than five adult children, she was asked about transfers collectively rather than child-by-child. As in the 1979 survey, transfers from the children were also collected.
8. "In the Middle," AARP, 2001.
9. This includes biological, adoptive, and stepchildren.
10. The results are not shown here.
11. When support included both significant amounts of time and money, the more important activity was determined by whether the dollar amount of support was more or less than twice the number of hours of support.