Albertini Marco, Tur-Sinai Aviad, Lewin-Epstein Noah, Silverstein Merril
Department of Political and Social Sciences, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy.
Department of Health Systems Management, The Max Stern Yezreel Valley College, Yezreel Valley, Israel.
Eur J Popul. 2022 Feb 24;38(2):273-300. doi: 10.1007/s10680-022-09606-7. eCollection 2022 May.
The lengthening of the amount of time adult children depend on their parents' support and rising longevity have pushed scholars to devote increasing attention to the phenomenon of older sandwich family generations. This brief report develops a descriptive portrait of the prevalence of being demographically and socially sandwiched in the population aged 50 or more years, in Europe. It is shown that the prevalence of social sandwiching is highly sensitive to the types of support utilized to operationalize the concept; also, differences between welfare and transfer regimes are significantly affected by different operationalizations. Next, the analyses highlight the dynamic nature of social sandwiching over the adult life cycle, and show that demographic events and the changing needs of older parents are the main drivers of moving in/out the status of socially sandwiched. Support to adult children is ubiquitous in all European societies. Among the pivot generation family solidarity prevails over competition, but children enjoy a strategic advantage when older parents are in good health.
成年子女依赖父母支持的时间延长以及寿命的增加，促使学者们越来越关注老年夹心家庭代际现象。本简要报告描绘了欧洲50岁及以上人口在人口统计学和社会层面处于夹心状态的普遍情况。研究表明，社会夹心状态的普遍程度对用于界定该概念的支持类型高度敏感；此外，福利制度和转移支付制度之间的差异也受到不同界定方式的显著影响。接下来，分析突出了社会夹心状态在成年生命周期中的动态性质，并表明人口事件和老年父母不断变化的需求是进出社会夹心状态的主要驱动因素。对成年子女的支持在所有欧洲社会都很普遍。在关键代际中，家庭团结胜过竞争，但当老年父母身体健康时，子女具有战略优势。
