Aging and generational relations over the life course: a historical and cross-cultural perspective

Introduction: Aging and Generational Relations Over the Life Course / Tamara K. Hareven

Kinship and Care for the Aged in Traditional Rural Iberia / Stanley Brandes

Household Patterns of the Elderly and the Proximity of Children in a Nineteenth Century City; Verviers, Belgium, 1831-1846 / George Alter, Lisa Cliggett and Alex Urbiel

"The Life Stairs": Aging, Generational Relations, and Small Commodity Production in Central Europe / Josef Ehmer

Aging in a Never-Empty Nest: The Elasticity of the Stem Family / Antoinette Fauve-Chamoux

The Family, State Support and Generational Relations in Rural Ireland at the Turn of the Twentieth Century / Timothy W. Guinnane

Relations Between Older Adults and Their Adult Children in a Nineteenth-Century Italian Town / David I. Kertzer and Dennis P. Hogan

Retirement, Inheritance, and Generational Relations: Life-Course Analysis in Historic Eastern Europe / Andrejs Plakans

Gender, Rural-Urban and Socio-Economic Differences in Coresidence of the Elderly with Adult Children: The Case of Sweden 1860-1940 / Lars-Goran Tedebrand

Asymmetry in Intergenerational Family Relationships in Italy / Marzio Barbagli

Equity Between Generations in Aging Societies: The Problem of Assessing Public Policies / Anne-Marie Guillemard

Residence and Family Support Systems for Widows In Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Texas / Jane Zachritz and Myron P. Gutmann

Living Arrangements of the Elderly in America: 1880-1980 / Steven Ruggles

The Generation in the Middle: Cohort Comparisons in Assistance to Aging Parents in an American Community / Tamara K. Hareven and Kathleen J. Adams

Fathers and Sons in Rural America: Occupational Choice and Intergenerational Ties Across the Life Course / Glen H. Elder, Jr., Elizabeth B. Robertson and Rand D. Conger

The Well-Being of Aging Americans With Very Old Parents / Dennis P. Hogan, David J. Eggebeen and Sean M. Snaith

Exchanges Within Black American Three-Generation Families: The Family Environment Context Model / James S. Jackson, Rukmalie Jayakody and Toni C. Antonucci

The Demography of Family Care for the Elderly / Douglas A. Wolf, Beth J. Soldo and Vicki Freedman

Types of Supports for the Aged and Their Providers in Taiwan / Albert I. Hermalin, Mary Beth Ofstedal and Ming-Cheng Chang

Familial Support and the Life Course of Thai Elderly and Their Children / John Knodel, Napaporn Chayovan and Siriwan Siriboon

Intergenerational Support In Sri Lanka: The Elderly and Their Children / Peter Uhlenberg

Some Inter- and Intracohort Comparisons of Generational Interactions. From the Acquisition of Parental Roles through Postparenthood in Japan, 1914-1958 / Kanji Masaoka and Sumiko Fujimi

Generational Relations and Their Changes As They Affect the Status of Older People in Japan / Kiyomi Morioka

Generational Relations: A Future Perspective / Matilda White Riley and John W. Riley, Jr.