Families in Later Life: Connections and TransitionsThe ideal core text for courseS on Families in Later Life, this is the only book on the subject that addresses the diversity of aging experiences in society by race, gender, and social class, and in a form which combines insight from the humanities as well as the social sciences. |
Contents
PART III | 10 |
PART I | 13 |
Four Models of Adolescent MotherGrandmother | 27 |
One Week Until College | 36 |
The Good Daughter | 39 |
Social Demography of Contemporary Families and Aging | 47 |
Intergenerational Solidarity and the Structure | 53 |
PART II | 67 |
PART IV | 177 |
Without stable work histories older Mexican American | 202 |
Family Ties and Motherly Love | 208 |
Gender and Control Among Spouses | 218 |
The Story of a Marriage | 224 |
PART V | 233 |
A Father a Son | 247 |
Manon Reassures Her Lover | 249 |
Dancing With Death | 80 |
Only Daughter | 89 |
Fathers Sorrow Fathers | 97 |
The Centrality of Intimacy in Later Midlife | 115 |
Marriage and Family Life of BlueCollar | 127 |
Breathing Lessons | 135 |
As remembered by her granddaughter a Puerto Rican | 146 |
Adult siblings anchored by sisters meet their | 157 |
Marriage as Support or Strain? Marital Quality | 164 |
Understanding Elder Abuse and Neglect | 258 |
A sense that time is running out changes priorities so that | 265 |
Letters From a Father | 278 |
Sources and Permissions | 287 |
Last Christmas Gift From a Mother | 289 |
References | 293 |
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