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Simultaneous care for parents and care for children among mid-life British women and men

This article investigates care provided to parents and parents-in-law by mid-life adults with dependent children at home. Data from the General Household Survey are used first to estimate the prevalence of this 'two-way' care over the past decade, and second to develop forecasts of two-way care for a generation of women who have just finished their childbearing years. Having a higher education qualification is associated with later ages both of caring for parents and of having children at home. Increasingly late first childbearing, however, points towards a potentially greater caring 'squeeze' for higher qualified women, with a little over one in ten at age 45 projected to be caring for a parent while still having a child under 18 in the household. 

Additional Titles
Population Trends
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Key Information

Type of Reference
Jour
Resource Database
Hmic
Publication Year
2003
Volume Number
112
Start Page
29-35
Language
English