@article{b9f8a9ac692a4a84bebe9f46245e47fe,
title = "Children-in-law in caregiving families",
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.",
author = "Peters-Davis, {Norah D.} and Moss, {Miriam S.} and Pruchno, {Rachel A.}",
note = "Funding Information: This research was supported in part by grant PO1 MH43371 (Caregiving and Mental Health: A Multifaceted Approach) to the Philadelphia Geriatric Center (with a subcontract to the Myers Research Institute of Menorah Park Center for Aging) from the National Institute of Mental Health. 1Address correspondence to Dr. Norah Peters-Davis, Chair, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Beaver College, 450 S. Easton Rd., Glenside, PA 19038. E-mail: peters@castle.beaver.edu Philadelphia Geriatric Center, Philadelphia, PA. 3Center tor Child, Family & Community Partnerships, Newton, MA. Funding Information: Data for the analyses in this article were collected as part of a program project grant from the National Institute of Mental Health, {"}Caregiving and Mental Health: A Multifaceted Approach{"} (PO1 MH43371), to the Philadelphia Geriatric Center. One focus of the research was to investigate the effects that caregiving has on the lives of multiple members of multigenerational families who are living together. In addition to coresidence for a minimum of one month, criteria for inclusion in this component of the study were: (a) the family elder was 65 years of age or older and not currently married; (b) the middle generation member was a married daughter or daughter-in-law; (c) the third generation member was a child of the middle generation marriage and was between the ages of 11 and 31. Primary caregivers lived in the Philadelphia area and were recruited through newspaper announcements and community organizations, thus representing a sample of convenience.",
year = "1999",
doi = "10.1093/geront/39.1.66",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "39",
pages = "66--75",
journal = "The Gerontologist",
issn = "0016-9013",
publisher = "Oxford University Press",
number = "1",
}