| 词汇 | daughters-in-law |
| 释义 | daughters-in-law plural ofdaughter-in-law Examples of daughters-in-lawdaughters-in-law Some of them might have been able to assist their daughters or daughters-in-law in housekeeping. Men, particularly sons and husbands, mainly provided material support, while women, particularly wives, daughters and daughters-in-law, provided most support with practical tasks and emotionally. These patterns were mirrored in the predominance of women among providers, for example, daughters-in-law relative to sons for care. One should also note the strongly gendered nature of caring: the majority of the care-givers are wives, daughters or daughters-in-law. Older women are much more likely than the men to mention daughters-in-law. Widows, (girl) orphans, new daughters-in-law, and unwanted wives are amongst those who could traditionally expect the lowest levels of consideration within the joint family system. Limited availability and accessibility of home nursing and home help services make close family members the main care givers, above all partners, daughters and daughters-in-law. They were the wives (22%), husbands (22 %), daughters (26%), sons (12%), sisters (3%), daughters-in-law (5 %), and great nieces (2%) of the individuals with dementia. It is also possible, however, that wife carers rely more on their daughters-in-law than their own sons for support. For those with sons, brideprice has the function of attracting daughters-in-law of the highest possible status. Given the expected importance of gender for informal ties, tables present figures separately for older men and women, sons and daughters, and sons-in-law and daughters-in-law. Another priority is to move beyond sons and daughters-in-law to also consider spouses, daughters, and friends and neighbours. These indicators of expressive support show relatively less reliance on friends and neighbours followed more distantly by daughters-in-law and sons-in-law. A lower proportion of the co-resident younger generation of women (daughters and daughters-in-law) than of older women were income earners. Other grandparents remained friendly with their 'ex' sons- or daughters-in-law. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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