Choosing Daughters: Exploring Why Mothers Favor Adult Daughters over Sons

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Does singlehood isolate or integrate? Examining the link between marital status and ties to kin, friends, and neighbors (2016, background): “…suggests that singles exchange more support with their parents than those married (Laditka & Laditka, 2001; Sarkisian & Gerstel, 2004, 2012; Suitor & Pillemer, 2006), although some find no such differences by marital status in support (Campbell & Martin-Matthews, 2003; Johnson & Lo Sasso,…”
The Transition to Parent Care: Costs, Commitments, and Caregiver Selection Among Children (2014, background): “…and preferences in selecting a future caregiver among their children, but also that these expectations and preferences are relatively stable over time and are associated more strongly with socioemotional characteristics than costrelated factors (Pillemer & Suitor, 2006; Suitor & Pillemer, 2006).”
Capturing the Complexity of Intergenerational Relations: Exploring Ambivalence within Later-Life Families (2007, background): “Similarly, both parents and children are often keenly aware of the fact that individual parent–child dyads in the same family differ in terms relationship quality (Suitor & Pillemer, 2006).”