PART II THE BAODING ELDERLY AND INTERGENERATIONAL RELATIONS: THE GENERAL PICTURE
Through the remaining chapters, some of the primary results of our Baoding survey are presented and discussed and then placed in a comparative context. The three chapters in 54 The figures presented there on the family composition, marital status, employment status, health, and other social background characteristics of Baoding parents help to provide a context within which to place the more detailed analyses in the chapters that follow. This chapter also presents the first evidence that most Baoding parents feel good about their lives, and that continued close relationships with, and support from, grown children are primary sources of this satisfaction. In some sense most of the remaining chapters in the volume are devoted to analyzing in greater detail the robustly strong intergenerational relations that are the dominant pattern in our data and puzzling out how and why the threats to filial obligations detailed in previous pages have not had as much impact as expected.
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