Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Aging and Generational Relations Over the Life Course / Tamara K. Hareven
  • Kinship and Care for the Aged in Traditional Rural Iberia / Stanley Brandes
  • Household Patterns of the Elderly and the Proximity of Children in a Nineteenth Century City; Verviers, Belgium, 1831-1846 / George Alter, Lisa Cliggett and Alex Urbiel
  • "The Life Stairs": Aging, Generational Relations, and Small Commodity Production in Central Europe / Josef Ehmer
  • Aging in a Never-Empty Nest: The Elasticity of the Stem Family / Antoinette Fauve-Chamoux
  • The Family, State Support and Generational Relations in Rural Ireland at the Turn of the Twentieth Century / Timothy W. Guinnane
  • Relations Between Older Adults and Their Adult Children in a Nineteenth-Century Italian Town / David I. Kertzer and Dennis P. Hogan
  • Retirement, Inheritance, and Generational Relations: Life-Course Analysis in Historic Eastern Europe / Andrejs Plakans
  • Gender, Rural-Urban and Socio-Economic Differences in Coresidence of the Elderly with Adult Children: The Case of Sweden 1860-1940 / Lars-Goran Tedebrand
  • Asymmetry in Intergenerational Family Relationships in Italy / Marzio Barbagli
  • Equity Between Generations in Aging Societies: The Problem of Assessing Public Policies / Anne-Marie Guillemard
  • Residence and Family Support Systems for Widows In Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Texas / Jane Zachritz and Myron P. Gutmann
  • Living Arrangements of the Elderly in America: 1880-1980 / Steven Ruggles
  • The Generation in the Middle: Cohort Comparisons in Assistance to Aging Parents in an American Community / Tamara K. Hareven and Kathleen J. Adams
  • Fathers and Sons in Rural America: Occupational Choice and Intergenerational Ties Across the Life Course / Glen H. Elder, Jr., Elizabeth B. Robertson and Rand D. Conger
  • The Well-Being of Aging Americans With Very Old Parents / Dennis P. Hogan, David J. Eggebeen and Sean M. Snaith
  • Exchanges Within Black American Three-Generation Families: The Family Environment Context Model / James S. Jackson, Rukmalie Jayakody and Toni C. Antonucci
  • The Demography of Family Care for the Elderly / Douglas A. Wolf, Beth J. Soldo and Vicki Freedman
  • Types of Supports for the Aged and Their Providers in Taiwan / Albert I. Hermalin, Mary Beth Ofstedal and Ming-Cheng Chang
  • Familial Support and the Life Course of Thai Elderly and Their Children / John Knodel, Napaporn Chayovan and Siriwan Siriboon
  • Intergenerational Support In Sri Lanka: The Elderly and Their Children / Peter Uhlenberg
  • Some Inter- and Intracohort Comparisons of Generational Interactions. From the Acquisition of Parental Roles through Postparenthood in Japan, 1914-1958 / Kanji Masaoka and Sumiko Fujimi
  • Generational Relations and Their Changes As They Affect the Status of Older People in Japan / Kiyomi Morioka
  • Generational Relations: A Future Perspective / Matilda White Riley and John W. Riley, Jr.