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Getting Help With Housework

Household Resources and Social Networks

State University of New York at Albany

Research on household labor typically has focused on housework performed by spouses, occasionally including children and other household members. Help from outsiders has been studied separately in research on kin networks or paid help. The author investigate conditions under which households receive outside formal or informal help using data for a probability sample of middle-aged and older persons living in a variety of household types. Most housework is performed by household members; outside help with cleaning, yard care, and/or household repair is most common. Households are most likely to accomplish housework internally when they include married couples and more adult members and members of both sexes, there are fewer children, housing is owner occupied, and members are younger and healthier. Higher income increases formal help, whereas local adult children increase informal help. Involvement in other kin, friendship, or neighborhood networks does not influence patterns of housework help.

Journal of Family Issues, Vol. 20, No. 6, 724-745 (1999)
DOI: 10.1177/019251399020006001


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