Love and Work: Intergenerational Household Composition in the U.S. in 1900.

Sweetser, Dorrian Apple

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ERIC Number: EJ303841

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Publication Date: 1984

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Love and Work: Intergenerational Household Composition in the U.S. in 1900.

Sweetser, Dorrian Apple

Journal of Marriage and the Family, v46 n2 p289-93 May 1984

Presents a causal explanation predicting kinship ties involving division of labor and the usefulness of kin. Data on white households in the Public Use Sample of the 1900 U.S. Census confirmed that wife's parents would be more common in nonfarm households, while husband's parents would predominate in farm households. (JAC)

Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Extended Family, Family Relationship, Helping Relationship, Occupations, Sex Differences

Publication Type: Reports - Research; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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