(July 30, 2010, New York Times)
Nicole Bengiveno/The New York Times A multinational study finds surprising differences from country to country in how elderly parents describe their relationships with adult children.
It’s not just you.
Compared with elderly parents and adult children in five other industrialized nations, Americans are twice as likely to have “disharmonious” relationships, a new multinational study has found. And we’re correspondingly less likely to have “amicable” relationships marked by strong affection and relatively free of conflict.
Geography is destiny, apparently. The study of nearly 2,700 parents over age 65, published recently in The Journal of Marriage and Family, turned up significant national differences.
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