Open AccessRacial Differences in Early Parental Death, Midlife Life Problems, and Relationship Strain With Adult Children
Author(s) -
Yijung K Kim,
Kyungmin Kim,
Karen L. Fingerman,
Debra Umberson
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
the journals of gerontology. series b, psychological sciences and social sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.578
H-Index - 150
eISSN - 1758-5368
pISSN - 1079-5014
DOI - 10.1093/geronb/gbaa232
Subject(s) - life course approach , psychology , developmental psychology , young adult , intervention (counseling) , gerontology , medicine , psychiatry
Black Americans typically experience the death of a parent earlier in the life course than do non-Hispanic Whites, and early parental death is known to hinder subsequent relationship outcomes. Whether early parental death may contribute to racial differences in midlife family relationships and the role midlife adults' current life problems play remain unexplored.