CFD 3240 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Collectivism, Gender Role
28 Apr 2017
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74% of elderly in asia still co-reside with their adult children. Far greater than in europe (26%) & north america (19%) Children who coreside their grandparents have higher academic performance: long-term coresidence matters most. Corresponds with the 4-2-1 style (four grandparents, two parents, and one child) Parents in china are able to take for granted an abundance of assistance from grandparents. Typical form of assistance is child care, no matter where the grandparents live: when grandmothers don"t with adult children, they often travel to help out in times of need. Grandparents under the challenges of hiv/aids, kenya and south africa. There are vast numbers of orphans whose parents have died of aids. Grandmothers caring for many grandchildren and great-grandchildren: entirely on their own with little legal or economic support, also cared for the parents of these children as they became ill and died.
