Children-in-Law in Caregiving Families
Open Access
- 1 February 1999
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in The Gerontologist
- Vol. 39 (1) , 66-75
- https://doi.org/10.1093/geront/39.1.66
Abstract
Data were collected from 252 coresident caregiving daughters and daughters-in-law and their husbands. We hypothesized that biological children would give more care than children-in-law and that children-in-law would have very different caregiving experiences and resultant appraisals than biological children. Contrary to our hypotheses, we found that the experiences are very similar for biological children and children-in-law in caregiving families. We suggested that the important factor is not the relationship to the elder that has the impact–it is the quality of the relationship with the elder that is consistently significant.Keywords
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