Agree Emily, Bissett Beverley, Rendall Michael S
Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, USA.
Popul Trends. 2003 Summer(112):29-35.
This article investigates care provided to parents and parents-in-law by mid-life adults with dependent children at home. Data from the General Household Survey are used first to estimate the prevalence of this 'two-way' care over the past decade, and second to develop forecasts of two-way care for a generation of women who have just finished their childbearing years. Having a higher education qualification is associated with later ages both of caring for parents and of having children at home. Increasingly late first childbearing, however, points towards a potentially greater caring 'squeeze' for higher-qualified women, with a little over 1 in 10 at age 45 projected to be caring for a parent while still having a child under 18 in the household.
本文调查了家中有未成年子女的中年成年人对父母及公婆/岳父母的照料情况。首先，利用综合住户调查的数据来估计过去十年这种“双向”照料的普遍程度；其次，对刚结束生育年龄的一代女性的双向照料情况进行预测。拥有高等教育学历与照顾父母以及家中有子女的年龄较晚有关。然而，初育年龄越来越晚表明，高学历女性可能面临更大的照料“压力”，预计45岁时每10人中就有略超过1人既要照顾父母，家中又有18岁以下的子女。
