Research On Elderly’s Living Way And The Support Behavior Of Children

This article is under the support of the data of research in Wucheng in Shandong province,combined with relevant theory of sociology, study of factors affecting the living way of the rural elderly people from a perspective of family change and study of factors affecting child support behavior from a spatial perspective and focus on how The rural elderly living way affect children’s support behavior.The main research conclusions are as follows:Firstly, the rural elderly’s living way has changed, and the proportion of elderly people live with their children is sharply decline, the elderly live alone and just live with spouse,which are the Empty nesters weight more than half. In addition, the rural elderly living way appear differentiation, the proportion of The old man lived with his son decline, there have been some new way of living, such as living in the married daughter’s home,the phenomenon also account for certain proportion.Secondly, the rural elderly’s living way affected by the economic resources. Main source for the living have a significant impact on the elderly life,but personal annual income of their children have no impact. We consider that elderly’s living way is not infuluenced by the things of their families but themselves. The rural elderly living way influenced by cultural factors. The traditional ideas also have influence on elderly’s living way. The sex of their children,and their living way ideas have a significant impact on elderly’s living way. Mostly children make a great agreenment on living way, especially the "willing to support parents in their own home" attitude. The Chinese traditional culture influence is very profound.Thirdly, the rural elderly endowment resource is not enough.The family pension is still the basic form of pension in our country. Children provide the elderly economic support, life care and emotional support is insufficient, especially the proportion of children rarely or never give the old man economic support is large, The life of old people is hard.Fourthly, the elderly’s living way has remarkable effect on thier children’s life, but it has no significant influence on their economic support and mental comfort. Children give the elderly who live in a married daughter’s home more life care,then followed by the elderly living with married son, the elderly living alone, and the elderly living with a spouse. Space theory emphasizes that people’s activities happen in space, including the limitation of physical space,and the influence of the virtual space. Physical space have important influence on face-to-face interaction between children and parents,but with the development of science and technology, economic support and mental comfort has breakthrough the limitation of the physical space.