Ageing Without Children

European and Asian Perspectives on Elderly Access to Support Networks

Inbunden, Engelska, 2005

AvPhilip Kreager,Elisabeth Schröder-Butterfill,Elisabeth Schroder-Butterfill

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Rapid fertility declines and improved longevity are now shifting the overall balance of population towards older ages in many parts of the world. Within this growing population of older people there are many groups with particular needs about which relatively little is known. This collection focuses on one such sub-population, the elderly without children. Few would deny that childlessness poses potential human and welfare problems for older people without them. What is less well known is that comparative anthropological and historical demographic research indicates that childlessness is a recurring social phenomenon that has affected 1 in 5 older women in many cultures and historical periods. High levels of childlessness arise not solely or primarily from biological factors like primary sterility, but from a combination of actors. Many, like non-marriage, delayed childbearing , and pathological sterility, reflect the interaction of social and biological influences.Also of major importance are factors that remove the support of children from elders' lives: migration, mortality, divorce, remarriage, family enmity, social mobility, and the pressing demands of family and career on younger generations. The papers collected in this volume employ a mixture of quantitative and qualitative methods to define and characterize the experience of ageing without children.

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Utgivningsdatum2005-04-14
Mått152 x 229 x 20 mm
Vikt435 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieFertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives
Antal sidor290
FörlagBerghahn Books, Incorporated
ISBN9781571816146

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List of FiguresList of TablesForewordChapter 1. Where are the Children?Philip KreagerPART I: ASIAChapter 2. Problems of Elderly without Children: A Case-study of the Matrilineal Minangkabau, West SumatraEdi IndrizalChapter 3. ‘They Don’t Need It, and I Can’t Give It’: Filial Support in South IndiaPenny Vera-SansoChapter 4. Adoption, Patronage and Charity: Arrangements for the Elderly without Children in East JavaElisabeth Schröder-ButterfillChapter 5. In the Absence of Family Support: Cases of Childless Widows in Urban Neighbourhoods of East JavaRuly MariantiPART II: EUROPEChapter 6. Demographic Change in Europe: Implications for Future Family Support for Older PeopleMaria Evandrou and Jane FalkinghamChapter 7. British Pakistani Elderly without Children: An Invisible MinorityAlison ShawChapter 8. Home-place, Movement and Autonomy: Rural Aged in East Anglia and NormandyJudith OkelyChapter 9. The Position of the Elderly in Greece Prior to the Second World War: Evidence from Three Island PopulationsVioletta HionidouNotes on ContributorsIndex

“by emphasizing the historical and synchronous universality of the childless elderly in the East and the West and by highlighting the social context of their formation and relations, Ageing without Children: European and Asian Perspectives fills a glaring lacuna in demographic studies.” · H-Net Reviews“As a collection of rich case studies…the volume will provide a welcome read and source of enlightening data.” · JRAI

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