Convergence of Children’s Roles: The Changing Role of Daughters and the Transformation of the Traditional Elderly Care Model

Abstract

With the emancipation of social thinking, the improvement of women’s social status in the transformation of the family structure has changed the original structure and function of their participation in the family. The increase in the phenomenon of daughters’ elderly care has made the idea of converging son’s and daughter’s roles gradually accepted. The phenomenon of daughters’ elderly care reshapes the family’s expectation of daughters’ roles and the establishment of emotional communication between the married daughters and their parents’ families. The article explains the formation of the phenomenon of children’s assimilation through the change of the father’s concept of old age, the children’s division of labor, and the improvement of women’s status in the family. Under the influence of modernization and transformation, Chinese families have formed a new mode of support in which children participate together.