Kinship and Cohort in an Aging Society

Merril Silverstein is the Marjorie Cantor Professor of Aging at Syracuse University. Roseann Giarrusso is an associate professor of gerontology and sociology at the California State University, Los Angeles.

• Foreword, by Toni C. AntonucciAcknowledgmentsIntroduction. Solidarity as a Key Concept in Family and Generational ResearchPart I: Family Connections: Solidarity Within and Across GenerationsChapter 1. Differences in Mothers' and Fathers' Parental Favoritism in Later Life: A Within-Family ApproachChapter 2. Intergenerational Solidarity in Blended Families: The Inequality of Financial Transfers to Adult Children and StepchildrenChapter 3. Generational Contact and Support among Late Adult Siblings Within a Verticalized FamilyPart II: Grandparents in a Changing Demographic Landscape: Mothers and MentorsChapter 4. Grandmothers' Diff erential Involvement with Grandchildren in Rural Multiple Partner Fertility Family StructuresChapter 5. The Role of Grandparents in the Transition to Adulthood: Grandparents as "Very Important" Adults in the Lives of AdolescentsPart III: Of Generations and Cohorts: Micro-Macro Dialectics Chapter 6. Who's Talking about My Generation?Chapter 7. Toward Generational Intelligence: Linking Cohorts, Families, and ExperienceChapter 8. Biography and Generation: Spirituality and Biographical Pain at the End of Life in Old AgePart IV: Religion and Families: Contexts of Continuity, Change, and ConflictChapter 9. How Theory-Building Prompts Explanations about Generational Connections in the Domains of Religion, Spirituality, and AgingChapter 10. The Transmission of Religion across Generations: How Ethnicity MattersChapter 11. Church-Based Negative Interactions among Older African Americans, Caribbean Blacks, and Non-Hispanic WhitesPart V: Global, Cross-National, and Cross-Ethnic Issues: Who Will Care for the Young and the Old?Chapter 12. Global Aging and Families: Some Policy Concerns about the Global Aging PerspectiveChapter 13. Social Change, Social Structure, and the Cycle of Induced SolidarityChapter 14. The Intergenerational Social Contract Revisited: Cross-National PerspectivesChapter 15. Aging, Health, and Families in the Hispanic Population: Evolution of a ParadigmShort Biography of Vern L. BengtsonList of ContributorsIndex