Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Where are the children? / Philip Kreager
  • Problems of elderly without children: a case-study of the matrillineal Minangkabau, West Sumatra / Edi Indrizal
  • 'They don't need it, and i can't give it': filial support in South India / Penny Vera-Sanso / Adoption, patronage and charity: arrangements for the elderly without children in East Java / Elisabeth Schröder-Butterfill
  • In the absence of family support: cases of childless widows in urban neighbourhoods of East Java / Ruly Marianti
  • Demographic change in Europe: implications for future family support for older people / Maria Eandrou, Jane Falkingham
  • British Pakistani elderly without children: an invisible minority / Alison Shaw
  • Home-place, movement, and autonomy: rural aged in East Anglia and Normandy / Judith Okely
  • The position of the elderly in Greece prior to the Second World War: evidence from three island populations / Violetta Hionidou.