Strategic Adjustments of Elderly Asian Americans: Living Arrangements and Headship
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- Voon Chin Phua
- CUNY Graduate School and University Center, Center for Urban Research, 365 Fifth Ave., Rm. 6202, New York, NY 10016, USA.
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- Gayle Kaufman
- Department of Sociology, Davidson College, Davidson, NC 28036, USA.
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- Keong Suk Park
- Asia-Pacific Research Center, Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Siudies, Hanyang University, Seoul 133-791, Korea
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<jats:p> While many elderly whites in the US live in nuclear families, elderly minorities are more likely to live in extended families. The prevalence of extended families among elderly minorities is often explained in terms of cultural characteristics of ethnic minorities. Using the 1990 US census, we examine family living arrangements and headship among elderly Asian Americans and non-Hispanic whites. Headship is included to distinguish the intergenerational relationship within families. Results show that elderly Asian Americans are more likely than elderly whites to live in extended families, either as a head or in the household of another family member. In addition, the effects of some economic and cultural factors are different for each racial group. We suggest that extended family living among elderly Asian Americans is a result of more than cultural preferences but also reflects their strategic adjustments in American society. </jats:p>
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- Journal of Comparative Family Studies
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Journal of Comparative Family Studies 32 (2), 263-281, 2001-05-01
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