{"id":530,"date":"2011-07-06T01:41:03","date_gmt":"2011-07-06T05:41:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/eldercare\/?p=530"},"modified":"2011-07-06T01:41:50","modified_gmt":"2011-07-06T05:41:50","slug":"family-relations-an-international-comparison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/eldercare\/2011\/07\/06\/family-relations-an-international-comparison\/","title":{"rendered":"Family Relations: An International Comparison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">(July 30, 2010, <em>New York Times)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/graphics8.nytimes.com\/images\/2010\/07\/29\/health\/families480\/families480-blogSpan.jpg\" alt=\"A multinational study finds surprising differences in how elderly parents describe their relationships with adult children.\" \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000\">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.<\/span><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">It\u2019s not just you.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Compared with elderly parents and adult children in five other  industrialized nations, Americans are twice as likely to have  \u201cdisharmonious\u201d relationships, a new multinational study has found.  And  we\u2019re correspondingly less likely to have \u201camicable\u201d relationships  marked by strong affection and relatively free of conflict.<!--more--><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Geography is destiny, apparently. <a href=\"http:\/\/www3.interscience.wiley.com\/journal\/123580907\/abstract?CRETRY=1&amp;SRETRY=0\">The study of nearly 2,700 parents over age 65<\/a>, published recently in The Journal of Marriage and Family, turned up significant national differences.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Continue: <a href=\"http:\/\/newoldage.blogs.nytimes.com\/2010\/07\/30\/family-relations-a-worldwide-comparison\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/newoldage.blogs.nytimes.com\/2010\/07\/30\/family-relations-a-worldwide-comparison\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(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\u2019s not just you. Compared with elderly parents and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/eldercare\/2011\/07\/06\/family-relations-an-international-comparison\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3636,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40867,42103,40871,41276,41278],"tags":[43259],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/eldercare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/eldercare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/eldercare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/eldercare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3636"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/eldercare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=530"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/eldercare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":532,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/eldercare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530\/revisions\/532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/eldercare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/eldercare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/eldercare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}