扶上马再送一程:父母的帮助及其对子女赡养行为的影响

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The prior research about intergenerational relationships in a Chinese context usually focuses on filial support to parents but rarely pays attention to parental support to adult children, and its impact on children's feedback. In this paper, we summarize the existing literature on this topic and argue that parental support to adult children not only can solve real life needs but also lay the foundation for receiving filial return in the future. Based on the pilot survey of China Longitudinal Aging Social Survey (CLASS) in 2012, we found that in today's China parents are providing abundant support for their adult children such as financial help and childcare. This support (particularly childcare) has a significant positive effect on children's immediate and future filial return. In comparison to rural families, this positive effect is much stronger in urban families.This to some extent indicates that the foundation of filial piety in China has changed with the development of modernization. On one hand, both parents and children need each other's support at some particular points of life cycle; therefore, intergenerational support in the future will be bidirectional rather than unidirectional. On the other hand, with the weakening of filial piety children's support to parents may change from unconditional support to conditional support. Whether or not children receive parental support in adulthood may become an important factor or condition of the amount of their support provided to parents.

XU Qi. More than Upbringing: Parents' Support and the Effect on Filial Duty[J]. Chinese Journal of Sociology, 2017, 37(2): 216-240.

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