Aging and Generational Relations over the Life-Course

Tamara K. Hareven is Unidel Professor of Family Studies and History at the University of Delaware. She is co-editor with Andrejs Plakans of the History of the Family: An International Quarterly, which they founded in 1996. Dr. Hareven is the author of several books and has edited collections on the history of the family, work and family, the life course, and aging. Among her best known books are Amoskeag: Life and Work in the American Factory City (1978); Family Time and Industrial Time (1982); and Transitions: The Family and the Life Course in Historical Perspective ( editor, 1978).Dr. Hareven has been the recipient of grants from the Ford Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Social Science Research Council, and the National Institute on Aging. She has been a Fulbright scholar to India and Japan.

• Introduction I THE UNITED STATES AND EUROPE 1 The Generation in the Middle: Cohort Comparisons in Assistance to Aging Parents in an American Community 2 Fathers and Sons in Rural America: Occupational Choice and Intergenerational Ties across the Life Course 3 The Well-Being of Aging Americans with Very Old Parents 4 Exchanges within Black American Three-Generation Families: The Family Environment Context Model 5 The Demography of Family Care for the Elderly 6 Asymmetry in Intergenerational Family Relationships in Italy 7 Equity Between Generations in Aging Societies: The Problem of Assessing Public Policies II EAST ASIA 8 Types of Supports for the Aged and Their Providers in Taiwan 9 Familial Support and the Life Course of Thai Elderly and Their Children 10 Intergenerational Support In Sri Lanka: The Elderly and Their Children 11 Generational Relations and Their Changes As They Affect the Status of Older People in Japan III EPILOGUE 12 Generational Relations: A Future Perspective, Index