What Drives National Differences in Intensive Grandparental Childcare in Europe?

Autor: Di Gessa, Giorgio, Glaser, Karen, Price, Debora, Ribe, Eloi, Tinker, Anthea
Rok vydání: 2016
Předmět:
Soziologie
Anthropologie
Sociology & anthropology
Female labor force participation
Intergenerational relationships
Survey of Health
Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE)
ZA4800: European Values Study 2008: Integrated Dataset (EVS 2008)
2008 European Union Labour Force Survey (EU-LFS)
European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC)
Familiensoziologie
Sexualsoziologie
Family Sociology
Sociology of Sexual Behavior
Europa
Großeltern
Kinderbetreuung
Erwerbsbeteiligung
Frauenerwerbstätigkeit
Generationenverhältnis
Kind
Demographie
Beschäftigung
Mutter
Eltern
sozioökonomische Faktoren
kulturelle Faktoren
Enkel
Mehrebenenanalyse
vergleichende Forschung
EVS
Europe
grandparents
child care
labor force participation
women's employment
Intergenerational relations
child
demography
employment
mother
parents
socioeconomic factors
cultural factors
grandchild
multi-level analysis
comparative research
10200
Zdroj: The Journals of Gerontology: Series B, 71, 1, 141-153
Druh dokumentu: Zeitschriftenartikel<br />journal article
ISSN: 1758-5368
DOI: 10.1093/geronb/gbv007
Popis: Objectives. Grandparents play an important role in looking after grandchildren, although intensive grandparental childcare varies considerably across Europe. Few studies have explicitly investigated the extent to which such cross-national variations are associated with national level differences in individual demographic and socio-economic distributions along with contextual-structural and cultural factors (e.g., variations in female labor force participation, childcare provision, and cultural attitudes). Methods. We used multilevel models to examine associations between intensive grandparental childcare and contextual-structural and cultural factors, after controlling for grandparent, parent, and child characteristics using nationally representative data from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe. Results. Even controlling for cross-national differences in demographic and socio-economic distributions, contextual-structural factors play an important role in explaining grandparental childcare variations in Europe. In particular, higher levels of intensive grandparental childcare are found in countries with low labor force participation among younger and older women, and low formal childcare provision, where mothers in paid work largely rely on grandparental support on an almost daily basis. Discussion. Encouraging older women to remain in paid work is likely to have an impact on grandchild care which in turn may affect mothers’ employment, particularly in Southern European countries where there is little formal childcare.
Databáze: SSOAR – Social Science Open Access Repository
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