Full Description
This important book offers valuable insights into the way in which social policies and welfare state arrangements interact with family and gender models. It presents the most up-to-date research in the field, based on a variety of national and comparative sources and using different theoretical and methodological approaches. The authors address different forms of support (care, financial, emotional) and employ a bi-directional perspective, exploring both giving and receiving across generations. They illustrate that understanding how generations interact in families helps to reformulate the way issues of intergenerational equity are discussed when addressing the redistributive impact of the welfare state through pensions and health services.Encompassing a wide number of European countries as well as migrant groups, this book will greatly appeal to graduate students interested in sociology, social policy and social psychology. Researchers and policy makers in the fields of demography and sociology will also find the book an invaluable resource.
Contents
Contents:
Preface
Introduction: Intergenerational Relations in Families - A Micro-Macro Perspective
Chiara Saraceno
1. The Book-ends: Emerging Perspectives on Children and Old People
Gunhild O. Hagestad
2. The Family as a Source of Support for Adult Children's Own Family Projects: European Varieties
Martin Kohli and Marco Albertini
3. The Intergenerational Transmission of Home Ownership and the Reproduction of the Familialistic Welfare Regime
Teresio Poggio
4. 'When will I see you again?' Intergenerational Contacts in Germany
Anja Steinbach and Johannes Kopp
5. Intergenerational Relations Within the Family and the State
Harald Künemund
6. Personal and Household Caregiving from Adult Children to Parents and Social Stratification
Sebastian Sarasa and Sunnee Billingsley
7. The Relationship between Children and their Frail Elderly Parents in Different Care Regimes
Wolfgang Keck
8. The Effects of Separation and Divorce on Parent-Child Relationships in Ten European Countries
Matthijs Kalmijn
9. Intergenerational Contact and Support: The Long-Term Effects of Marital Instability in Italy
Marco Albertini and Chiara Saraceno
10. The Intergenerational Care Potential of Dutch Older Adults in 1992 and 2002
Theo van Tilburg and Suzan van der Pas
11. Intergenerational Solidarity and Social Structures in Sweden: Class, Ethnicity and Gender in Public and Private Support Patterns
Ulla Björnberg and Hans Ekbrand
12. Patterns of Intergenerational Transfers Among Immigrants in France: A Comparative Perspective
Claudine Attias-Donfut and François-Charles Wolff
13. Reliable Bonds? A Comparative Perspective of Intergenerational Support Patterns Among Migrant Families in Germany
Helen Baykara-Krumme
Index
