Table 5.
Open-Ended Responses, by Who Needs Help and the Desirability of Co-Residence (weighted percentages)
| Explanation | Parent Needs Help | Adult Child Needs Help | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Good idea | Bad idea | It depends |
Total | Good idea | Bad idea | It depends |
Total | |
| Relationship quality/conflict | 0.3 | 34.8 | 58.6 | 36.0 | 1.3 | 12.7 | 47.1 | 30.2 |
| Family obligation | 59.4 | 0 | 0.2 | 20.1 | 34.9 | 0 | 0.1 | 9.2 |
| Resource constraints | 5.7 | 2.5 | 7.6 | 6.2 | 6.8 | 1.9 | 7.1 | 6.3 |
| Cohabitation | 0 | 25.3 | 1.6 | 3.9 | 0.3 | 37.7 | 2.3 | 6.5 |
| Short-term exchange | 8.7 | 0 | 2.0 | 4.0 | 15.7 | 0 | 3.5 | 6.1 |
| Housing | 0.1 | 0.3 | 7.5 | 4.0 | 0 | 0 | 8.8 | 5.2 |
| Duration | 7.9 | 2.4 | 2.3 | 4.1 | 7.6 | 0.4 | 3.8 | 4.5 |
| (In)dependence | 0 | 22.7 | 0.6 | 2.9 | 0 | 31.8 | 1.4 | 5.1 |
| Responsibility | 0 | 0.7 | 1.5 | 0.9 | 0.7 | 2.0 | 9.5 | 6.0 |
| If agree | 0.1 | 0 | 4.0 | 2.2 | 0.9 | 0.6 | 5.1 | 3.4 |
| Mother's health | 0.3 | 0.7 | 5.7 | 3.2 | 0 | 0 | 4.0 | 2.4 |
| Saves money | 3.2 | 0 | 0.7 | 1.4 | 15.2 | 0 | 0.1 | 4.0 |
| Other | 14.5 | 10.7 | 7.8 | 11.0 | 16.7 | 13.0 | 7.2 | 11.3 |
| Total (%) | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 |
| N (unweighted) | 485 | 178 | 803 | 1,502 | 387 | 196 | 852 | 1,467 |
Notes: Explanations are described in the text. Percentages may not sum to 100 due to rounding. “Don’t know” responses not shown due to small sample sizes.