Filial Piety and Functional Support: Understanding Intergenerational Solidarity Among Families with Migrated Children in Rural China

Ageing International

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 69-92

  Luo, Baozhen ^a   Zhan, Heying ^b  

^a WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Exchange; Filial Piety; Financial Support; Functional Solidarity; Normative Solidarity; Patrilineality; Rural Urban Migration

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857657993     PISSN: 01635158     EISSN: 1936606X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12126-011-9132-1     Document Type: Article

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