How to meet the demands of long-term care is a pressing issue in ageing societies. In most countries, care systems depend on the capability and willingness of family members to fill the gap between existing needs and formal service provision. Understanding the motivations of adult children to engage in parent care is, therefore, of central importance. The existing research literature offers different explanations, and here we concentrate on two key perspectives: normative and affectual commitments. Based on longitudinal data from two waves of the Norwegian Life Course, Ageing and Generation Study (2007 and 2017), we investigate to what extent adult children's previous attitudes towards filial responsibility norms and their perceived quality of the relationship to parents (in 2007) are associated with subsequent care-giving to ageing mothers and fathers (in 2017). The analyses show no evidence of a correlation between support of general filial responsibility norms and provision of help and care 10 years later. Perceived quality of the relationship, on the other hand, is associated with subsequent help and care-giving. The patterns are similar for daughters and sons. We conclude that within the context of a comprehensive welfare state, like the Norwegian, care-giving seems to be more of an individual choice than a societal prescription.

如何满足长期照护需求是老龄化社会面临的紧迫问题。在大多数国家，护理系统取决于家庭成员填补现有需求和正规服务提供之间差距的能力和意愿。因此，了解成年子女参与父母照顾的动机至关重要。现有的研究文献提供了不同的解释，这里我们集中讨论两个关键观点：规范承诺和情感承诺。基于来自挪威生命历程、老龄化和世代研究（2007 年和 2017 年）两波的纵向数据，我们调查了成年子女在多大程度上 过去对孝道责任规范的态度以及他们对与父母关系的感知质量（2007 年）与随后对年迈父母的照顾（2017 年）有关。分析表明，没有证据表明支持一般孝道责任规范与 10 年后提供帮助和照顾之间存在相关性。另一方面，感知到的关系质量与随后的帮助和照顾有关。女儿和儿子的模式相似。我们的结论是，在像挪威这样的综合福利国家的背景下，看护似乎更多地是个人选择，而不是社会处方。另一方面，感知到的关系质量与随后的帮助和照顾有关。女儿和儿子的模式相似。我们的结论是，在像挪威这样的综合福利国家的背景下，看护似乎更多地是个人选择，而不是社会处方。另一方面，感知到的关系质量与随后的帮助和照顾有关。女儿和儿子的模式相似。我们的结论是，在像挪威这样的综合福利国家的背景下，看护似乎更多地是个人选择，而不是社会处方。