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Daughters as caregivers of aging parents: the shattering myth
- Author:
- RON Pnina
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Gerontological Social Work, 52(2), February 2009, pp.135-153.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
This research study examines adult daughters’ measures of copying in their roles as caregivers of ageing parents. It investigates the model devised by Pearlin et al which presents the mental health of caregiver daughters as a function of demographic variables, role burden and stresses resulting from other relationships within the family, as well as personality variables such as mastery and self-esteem. The study examined 224 working women in Israel, and included questionnaires to measure stresses and burdens of being a caregiver and within the nuclear family, mastery over life, self-esteem, gender role orientation, and mental health. The results provided validation of the assumptions in Pearlin’s stress coping model. Two specific findings were that daughters with masculine traits felt a higher level of mental wellbeing, and also that family support provided a higher level of mental well-being for the daughter.
Harmed? harmful? experiencing abusive adult children with mental disorder over the life course
- Authors:
- BAND-WINTERSTEIN Tova, AVIELI Hila, SMELOY Yael
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 31(15), 2016, pp.185-194.
- Publisher:
- Sage
Older parents of an adult child coping with a mental disorder that is expressed by violent deviant behaviour face significant parenting challenges. The purpose of this article is to explore the ways older parents exposed to abuse by their adult children with mental disorder (ACMD) perceived their child’s violent deviant behaviour along the life course. In a qualitative-phenomenological study, 16 parents aged 58 to 90 were interviewed in depth. Three major themes emerged: (a) ongoing total care for the child’s needs along the life course, (b) constructions and perceptions of the child through the years—Parents perceived their children over two continua, reflecting their experience of the child’s deviant behaviour: the child as more harmed versus more harmful, the child as normative versus pathological—and (c) the parent’s emotional world toward the harmed–harmful child. The findings enable a deeper understanding of the various ways in which parents cope with living with deviant behaviours of their ACMD. Hence, this study can serve as a framework for developing tailored and differential intervention methods. (Edited publisher abstract)
Adult children of elderly parents who remarry: aetiology of domestic abuse
- Authors:
- LOWENSTEIN Ariela, RON Pnina
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Adult Protection, 2(4), November 2000, pp.22-32.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
This research paper from Israel examines damaging family reactions to later-life remarriage. It describes a study based on qualitative data from interviews with 17 children of elderly parents who had remarried and later reported their adult children to the social service agencies as abusers. An analysis of the interviews shows that the main cause of the abuse was financial and involved matters of inheritance, wills and the distribution of assets. The dynamics which lay behind this pattern of family behaviour are explored.