Search Results for Parental health

...John Giles; Ren Mu Abstract Recent research has shown that participation in migrant labor markets has led to substantial increases in income for families in rural China. This article addresses the question of how participation is affected by elderly parent health. We find that younger adults...

...Xin Meng; Chikako Yamauchi Abstract Since the end of 1990s, approximately 160 million Chinese rural workers migrated to cities for work. Because of restrictions on migrant access to local health and education systems, many rural children are left behind in home villages to grow up without parental...

...Janne Mikkonen; Hanna Remes; Heta Moustgaard; Pekka Martikainen Abstract This article reconsiders the role of social origin in health selection by examining whether parental education moderates the association between early health and educational attainment and whether health problems mediate...

...Kieron Barclay; Martin Kolk; Øystein Kravdal Abstract An extensive literature has examined the relationship between birth spacing and subsequent health outcomes for parents, particularly for mothers. However, this research has drawn almost exclusively on observational research designs, and almost...

... for the category of joint biological parents. Family structure Marriage Same-sex families Child health Data integrity 1 9 2017 2 10 2017 © The Author(s) 2017 2017 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License...

...Jennifer Caputo; Kathleen A. Cagney Abstract Many U.S. parents share a household with an adult child in later life. However, the reasons parents and adult children coreside may vary over time and across family race/ethnicity, shaping relationships with parents' mental health. Using the Health...

... poorer health outcomes than children in married households regardless of the sex composition of their parents. Children in same-sex and different-sex married households are relatively similar to each other on health outcomes, as are children in same-sex and different-sex cohabiting households...

... to Reichman et al. (2004) on page 92 should have been listed as follows: Reichman, N.E., H. Corman, and K. Noonan. 2004. Effects of Child Health on Parents Relationship Status. Demography 41:569 84. The corresponding citation on page 80 should have read Reichman, Corman, and Noonan (2004). ...

...Nancy E. Reichman; Hope Corman; Kelly Noonan Abstract We used data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study to estimate the effect of a child’s poor health on the presence of the father. We investigated whether parents lived in the same household 12–18 months after the child’s birth...

...Stefanie Mollborn; Elizabeth Lawrence; Laurie James-Hawkins; Paula Fomby Abstract This study examines the puzzle of disparities experienced by U.S. teen parents’ young children, whose health and development increasingly lag behind those of peers while their parents are simultaneously experiencing...

... a child falls ill and demonstrating the effects of child health on gender inequality in two-parent households. Part of the heterogeneity related to cancer types might stem from survival differences. Although cancer-related mortality in childhood is relatively rare (16.5% in a five-year follow-up in our...

...Mingming Ma; Jenjira Yahirun; Joseph Saenz; Connor Sheehan Abstract Population-level disparities in later-life cognitive health point to the importance of family resources. Although the bulk of prior work on the topic has established the directional flow of resources from parents to offspring...

... the consequences of parental health for educational performance in offspring. Here we address that omission, asking how resolved parental infertility relates to children’s academic achievement. In a sample of all Swedish births between 1988 and 1995, we find that involuntary childlessness prior to either a first...

... significant returns for parents themselves in later life. For instance, well-educated offspring have greater knowledge of health and technology to share with their parents and more financial means to provide for them than do their less-educated counterparts. We use data from the 1992–2006 Health...

...Zachary Zimmer; Heidi A. Hanson; Ken R. Smith Abstract Considering a network approach to health determinants, we test the hypothesis that benefits of high socioeconomic status (SES) may be transmitted up the generational ladder from offspring to parents. Studies that examine own SES and own health...

... benefit more from adult children's education. Although no significant differences are observed in the effects of sons' and daughters' education in urban China, sons' education is more beneficial for parents' health in rural China. Further analyses show that financial support and health support (e.g...

..., controlling for selective mortality, the use of alternative measures of households’ resources, and the inclusion of indicators of health at birth and parental health. One explanation for the constancy of the health-income relationship that we explore is the dominant role played by acute illness in determining...

...Yan Zhang; Jason M. Fletcher Abstract While parity is a significant factor influencing parental health, its relationship with dementia remains underexplored. This research note advances the literature by conducting a well-powered analysis of associations between parity (i.e., number of children...

... parents is controlled for. The relationship is certainly not purely causal, but part of it could be if, for example, well-educated adult children use their resources to find the best available health care for their aging parents. I therefore introduce the concept of “social foreground” and suggest...