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Variance in the distributive pattern of monetary support to older parents in China can be explained by viewing the approaches of reciprocity and gender difference against the social background of the Chinese society. The number of children and the pension of the parents also influence the provider's financial support. Predominance of the patriarchal family structure in China leads to the husband's parents having priority for monetary support as compared to the wife's parents. Daughters provide more caregiving support while sons give financial support.
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Parental conflict is not the reason for the lower well-being standards of children brought up in stepfather households, as all household conflicts have identical negative effects on the children. Children in stepfather households have a lower well-being status than the children in original two-parent households or single-mother households. Generally children in stepfather households experience more parental conflict than those in other households. Children in stepfather households with low conflict do as well as children in two-parent households.
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A study by the Department of Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and the Office of Population Research, Princeton University, used 1987-88 data of the National Survey of Families and Households, concerning 5,686 residential parents having young children, to reveal that friends are involved more than kin in social support relationships of non-traditional families, and that mothers give and get more support than fathers, while single parents are more connected to their own parents for support.
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