Aging and generational relations over the life course a historical and cross cultural perspective ; University of Delaware Family Research Symposium essays

Aging and generational relations over the life course : a historical and cross-cultural perspective / edited by Tamara Κ. Hareven. Introduction: Aging and Generational Relations Over the Life Course Kinship and Care for the Aged in Traditional Rural Iberia Household Patterns of the Elderly and the Proximity of Children in a Nineteenth Century City; Verviers, Belgium, 1831–1846 “The Life Stairs”: Aging, Generational Relations, and Small Commodity Production in Central Europe Aging in a Never-Empty Nest: The Elasticity of the Stem Family The Family, State Support and Generational Relations in Rural Ireland at the Turn of the Twentieth Century Relations Between Older Adults and Their Adult Children in a Nineteenth-Century Italian Town Retirement, Inheritance, and Generational Relations: Life-Course Analysis in Historic Eastern Europe Gender, Rural-Urban and Socio-Economic Differences in Coresidence of the Elderly with Adult Children: The Case of Sweden 1860–1940 Asymmetry in Intergenerational Family Relationships in Italy Equity Between Generations in Aging Societies: The Problem of Assessing Public Policies Residence and Family Support Systems for Widows In Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Texas Living Arrangements of the Elderly in America: 1880–1980 The Generation in the Middle: Cohort Comparisons in Assistance to Aging Parents in an American Community Fathers and Sons in Rural America: Occupational Choice and Intergenerational Ties Across the Life Course The Well-Being of Aging Americans With Very Old Parents Exchanges Within Black American Three-Generation Families: The Family Environment Context Model The Demography of Family Care for the Elderly Types of Supports for the Aged and Their Providers in Taiwan Familial Support and the Life Course of Thai Elderly and Their Children Intergenerational Support In Sri Lanka: The Elderly and Their Children Some Inter- and Intracohort Comparisons of Generational Interactions. From the Acquisition of Parental Roles through Postparenthood in Japan, 1914–1958 Generational Relations and Their Changes As They Affect the Status of Older People in Japan Generational Relations: A Future Perspective

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