British study contradicts American study: Kids do care for divorced parents
Fear not, divorced parents – your kids will still care for you when you’re old.
That’s the message coming out of a newly released British study of 5,000 households that finds adult children care for elderly parents according to need, not family history. So parents living alone, whether divorced or widowed, were twice as likely to receive help from their grown children as elderly parents with partners . . .
That’s great for the British, but what about the rest of us? The new research contradicts previous U.S. studies that say parents who divorced get less help later in life from their children.