Sarah Harper (ed.)

Families in Ageing Societies

A Multi-Disciplinary Approach
Herausgegeben von Harper, Sarah

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Produktbeschreibung

This volume brings together an international group of leading scholars from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds to consider the implications of the demographic ageing of western societies on intergenerational relationships and the family. Large data sets from the US, UK, and Europe are drawn on to examine the impact of changing kin structures, intergenerational responsibilities, and the range of contemporary issues currently impacting on family relationships.

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Western families are undergoing considerable change. The demographic ageing of societies is increasing the number of living generations, and decreasing the number of living relatives within these generations. These ageing societies are also seeing an ageing of some life- transitions, with individuals choosing to delay full economic independence from parents, formal adult union through marriage or committed long-term cohabitation, and parenting. Such demographic change is occurring
within the context of a variety of new kin structures-stepfamilies, ethnic minority families, single-parent families, cohabiting couples. This volume takes an inter-disciplinary research approach to consider the implications of demographic ageing for European and American families.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. November 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 164mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 480g
• ISBN-13: 9780199251162
• ISBN-10: 0199251169
• Artikelnr.: 13891743

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* 1: Sarah Harper: The Challenge for Families of Demographic Ageing
* 2: Mike Murphy: Models of Kinship from the Developed World
* 3: W. Andrew Achenbaum: One Happy Family? Sources of
Intergenerational Solidarity and Tension As Contemporary U.S. Society
Ages
* 4: Frieder R. Lang: The Availability and Supportive Functions of
Extended Kinship Ties in Later Life: evidence from the Berlin Ageing
Study
* 5: Brian Dimmock, Joanna Bornat, Sheila Peace, and David Jones:
Intergenerational Relationships Among Stepfamilies in the UK
* 6: Robert Anderson: Working Carers in the European Union
* 7: Richard W. Johnson and Anthony T. Lo Sasso: Family Support of the
Elderly and Female Labour Supply: Trade-Offs Among Caregiving,
Financial Transfers, and Work - Evidence from the U.S. Health and
Retirement Survey
* 8: Martin Knapp, Julien Forder, Jeremy Kendall, and Linda Pickard:
Social Care for Older People: The Growth of Independent-Sector
Provision in the UK
* 9: Janet Finch: Inheritance and Intergenerational Relationships in
English Families
* 10: Mary Elizabeth Hughes and Linda J. Waite: The American Family as
a Context for Healthy Ageing

Rezensionen

...an excellent account of family change that will be of value to students, researchers and academics alike.