Ageing without children : European and Asian perspectives /

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Imprint:New York : Berghahn Books, 2004.
Description:xii, 276 p. : ill., 1 map ; 23 cm.
Language:English
Series:Fertility, reproduction, and sexuality; v. 5
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5630728
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Varying Form of Title:Aging without children
Other authors / contributors:Kreager, Philip.
Schroeder-Butterfill, E.
ISBN:1571816143
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Where are the children? / Philip Kreager
  • 2. Problems of elderly without children : a case-study of the matrilineal Minangkabau, West Sumatra / Edi Indrizal
  • 3. 'They don't need it, and I can't give it' : filial support in South India / Penny Vera-Sanso
  • 4. Adoption, patronage and charity : arrangements for the elderly without children in East Java / Elisabeth Schroder-Butterfill
  • 5. In the absence of family support : cases of childless widows in urban neighbourhoods of East Java / Ruly Marianti
  • 6. Demographic change in Europe : implications for future family support for older people / Maria Evandrou and Jane Falkingham
  • 7. British Pakistani elderly without children : an invisible minority / Alison Shaw
  • 8. Home-place, movement and autonomy : rural aged in East Anglia and Normandy / Judith Okely
  • 9. The position of the elderly in Greece prior to the Second World War : evidence from three island populations / Violetta Hionidou.