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JOURNAL OF FAMILY THEORY & REVIEW
Volume 12, Issue 4, Pages 448-463Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/jftr.12398
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class; gender; health policy; intergenerational relationships; race; social support; stress
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- Center for Family and Demographic Research, Bowling Green State University from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development [P2CHD050959]
- National Institute on Aging (NIA), Motherhood Biographies and Midlife Women's Health [R01AG069251]
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We theorize that the social conditions surrounding the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic have the potential to increase the importance of families for health and widen existing inequalities. We suggest three primary tenets important for understanding families and health during COVID-19. First, risks of specific COVID-19 outcomes and other health problems are unevenly distributed across families. Second, how families impact health during the COVID-19 pandemic is conditional on public policies, organizational decisions, and concurrent events. Third, many health inequalities driven by racism, sexism, classism, and other oppressive societal forces are amplified during COVID-19, but the extent to which this is occurring is shaped by families and by the public policies, organizational decisions, and concurrent events that also impact families and health. As health disparities continue to emerge from this pandemic, we call on researchers and policymakers to pay attention to the multiple ways that families matter.
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