Are Mothers and Daughters Most Important? How Gender, Childhood Family Dissolution and Parents’ Current Living Arrangements Affect the Personal Care of Parents

This study examines adult children’s propensity to provide personal care older mothers and fathers. The theory of intergenerational solidarity facilitates the understanding commitment support between children parents. Solidarity may depend on childhood events as well current situation, we therefore focus whether there was a parental breakup in parent’s living arrangements. We also gendered aspects relations earlier research has found stronger matrilinear relationships. for analyzed with regression analysis using 2012 Swedish Generations Gender Survey. results show that daughters are more likely than sons both Parental does not change any parent. probability receiving is higher lone father, but repartnered mothers. Adult provision differ fathers mother, interpret this indicate repartnering weakens ties child’s gender arrangements operate differently regard most common pattern provided from For example, same situation. conclude affected by present affect such ways.