Ageing without children : European and Asian perspectives /
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| Imprint: | New York : Berghahn Books, 2004. |
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| 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 |
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.
