AUTHOR=Jiang Xiaodong , Cui Huaxue , Shi Tianfeng TITLE=Financial Support or Emotional Companion: Childbearing Motivations on Children’s Development in China JOURNAL=Frontiers in Psychology VOLUME=12 YEAR=2021 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.690980 DOI=10.3389/fpsyg.2021.690980 ISSN=1664-1078 ABSTRACT=
A preference for having a son has existed among Chinese parents for centuries due to, in part, sons having to provide financial support to elderly parents, while married daughters do not have this responsibility under Confucianism. Thus, this study examined the influence of parents’ childbearing motivation (financial support or emotional companion) on children’s development (academic performance and well-being) utilizing empirical data from the 2012 China Family Panel Studies. This study included 1,541 children (aged 10–15 years) and their parents who were surveyed