Families in Later Life: Connections and Transitions

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Pine Forge Press, Jan 22, 2001 - Family & Relationships - 326 pages

The 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
Author Index
301
Subject Index
308
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About the author (2001)

Alexis Walker holds the Jo Anne Leonard Petersen Chair in Gerontology and Family Studies and is Professor of Human Development and Family Sciences at Oregon State University, where she directs the undergraduate certificate program in gerontology. Her research on mother-daughter relationships and family caregiving has been funded by the National Institute on Aging.

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