RT Article
T1 Are grandparents better caretakers?: parental migration, caretaking arrangements, children’s self-control, and delinquency in rural China
JF Crime & delinquency
VO 65
IS 8
SP 1123
OP 1148
A1 Chen, Xiaojin
A2 Jiang, Xin
LA English
YR 2019
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1667923943
AB The purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of parental migration and alternative caretaking arrangements on children’s delinquency in rural China. Using data from the Parental Migration and Children’s Well-Being Survey, our results suggest that children’s delinquency is influenced by a dynamic interaction between caretaking arrangements and children’s self-control. More specifically, grandparenting appears to be an equivalent substitution for normative nuclear family parenting and has some advantage over caretaking by a remaining parent, especially for children with low self-control. These findings can serve as a starting point for a further conversation on the benefit of extended families and collective parenting, and on how to best use cultural resources in rural China under the constraint of parental migration and other structural barriers.
K1 Caretaking arrangements
K1 Juvenile delinquency
K1 Left-behind children
K1 Rural-to-urban migration
K1 Self-control
K1 China
K1 Jugenddeliquenz
DO 10.1177/0011128718788051