Daughters More Likely Than Sons to Care for Elder Parents

August 19, 2014

(UPI) – Parents who want their children to care for them in their old age are best off having daughters, as new research suggests they spend about twice as much time as their male siblings and counterparts do caring for elderly parents. “Whereas the amount of elderly parent care daughters provide is associated with constraints they face, such as employment or childcare, sons’ caregiving is associated only with the presence or absence of other helpers, such as sisters or a parent’s spouse,” explained study author Angelina Grigoryeva, a sociology researcher and doctoral candidate at Princeton University.