Kohara, Miki (contributor); Ōtake, Fumio (contributor) - 2006
. Focusing on the special case of parents’ illness, the paper then investigates altruism in Japanese children. Descriptive … care is not motivated entirely by altruism. We show that children provide parental care when their parents are wealthy …This paper analyzes what adult children would do for their parents were they frail and in need of long-term care …