Divorce can predict child's future day-to-day care for aging parents

Dailyindia.com/ANI ^ | 9/17/07 | ANI Correspondent

[Tax-chick]

Astonishingly, it was found that both mothers and fathers are only half as likely to get support from a non-biological child.

Why are we astonished at this?

[edcoil]

“Divorce can predict child’s future day-to-day care for aging parents”

No kidding.

[llevrok]

Heredity is amazing. If your parents did not have children, it is likely you won't either. Astonishingly.

[qam1]

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[gridlock]

Well, DUH!

[gridlock]

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[HamiltonJay]

My parents are divorced, if my dad fell ill it would be difficult for me to be involved in his day to day care, unless I moved him up to where I live... something I doubt he would want. My mother lives close by.

If my father did not fight me relocating him here, I would have no qualms being as active as I could in his care... when he is 600 miles away however, this makes this sort of involvement much more difficult if not impossible.

[ClaireSolt]

I think many assume that the government takes care of the elderly.

[JamesP81]

bttt

[JamesP81]

marital transitions

So that's what they're calling it these days.

[thulldud]

"It's not the divorce itself that affects the quality of the parent-child relationship, but it's what happens afterwards such as geographical separation," said Davey, a gerontologist who studies trends in the baby boomer generation and other aging issues.

Wrong.

[donna]

Why would anyone personally help strangers in their old age?

[BurbankKarl]

duh.

You reap what you sow!

[Froufrou]

Well, gee, we’re headed for an anything-goes world. On the express train to who-gives-a-crapshoot. Remember, anything you do, all you have to say is, “oops, sorry” and be done with it.

[Chickensoup]

Why are we astonished at this?

Because we live in an age where people think that everything is the same, everything is equal.

Example: Two homosexuals = an hetrosexual couple

Her kids = my kids

DOLTS!

[Tax-chick]

“Half as likely” means that there are some non-biological children (what, are they robots?) who are caring for their step-parent or adoptive parent. The observations of the study are intuitively obvious, but they’re generalizations, not descriptive of every case.

[Froufrou]

I hear ya. What about kids who don’t know who their parents are?

Studies and polls are amusing sometimes, but I take it with skepticism, like my horoscope...

[Tax-chick]

What about kids who don’t know who their parents are?

They weren't part of this study :-).

[MEGoody]

Why are we astonished at this?

If they are talking about children that were adopted at birth or shortly thereafter, I would find it astonishing that there is such a disparity in level of support.