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KMID : 1001320140410030051
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Social Welfare Policy
2014 Volume.41 No. 3 p.51 ~ p.77
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The Effects of Providing Care for Grandchildren on the Reciprocal Relationship Expectations between Grandparents and their Adult Children: Focusing on Financial Support Expectations Depending on the Duration of Providing Care
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Ha Seok-Cheol
Hong Kyung-Zoon
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Abstract
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The purpose of this study is to explore how providing care for grandchildren affects grandparents` expectations for a reciprocal relationship with their adult children. This is done by examining how the duration of providing care influences the financial support expectations from the adult children for whom they are providing child care. In this study, providing care is categorized into two types: contingent providing care and continuous providing care. The results indicate that grandparents providing care to their grandchildren constantly are more likely to expect financial support from their adult children than grandparents providing care to their grandchildren temporarily. Additionally, this trend is only shown in grandparents less than 65 years old. These results suggest that grandparents nowadays are more likely to recognize providing care for their grandchildren, previously considered as a normative behavior, as an insurance in a reciprocal relationship between two generations. Findings also indicate that this tendency will become more prominent with time. These findings have implications for theorizing about reciprocal relationship expectations between grandparents and their adult children, and provide viable framework for policies.
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KEYWORD
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providing care to grandchildren, grandparents raising grandchildren, financial support, reciprocity, intergenerational support
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