Intergenerational caregiving / edited by Alan Booth ... [et al.]. - Washington, D.C. : Urban Institute Press, 2008. - xvi, 414 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Intergenerational ties : theories, trends, and challenges / Are we asking the right questions on intergenerational ties? / Intergenerational ties : what can be gained from an international perspective? / Developing interdisciplinary approaches to study intergenerational relationships / Intergenerational caregiving and exchange : economic and evolutionary approaches / Do bioevolutionary forces shape intergenerational transfers? Detecting evidence in contemporary survey data / The problem of predictive promiscuity in deductive applications of evolutionary reasoning to intergenerational transfers : three cautionary tales / Beyond theory : individual differences in exchanges between older parents and their children / Intergenerational support, care and relationship quality in later life : exploring within-family differences / Unanticipated lives : inter- and intra-generational relationships in families with children with disabilities / Families as non-shared environments for siblings / Family bargaining and long-term care of the disabled elderly / The distribution of obligations / Race and ethnic influences on normative beliefs and attitudes toward provision of family care / Between the motion and the act : psychological perspectives on the distribution of obligations / Interpreting norms of obligation as planner's preferences for distributional justice : a formal economic model / Expanding the horizon : new directions for the study of intergenerational care and exchange / Suzanne M. Bianchi ... [et al.] -- Rebeca Wong -- Francesco C. Billari and Aart C. Liefbroer -- Melissa Hardy -- Donald Cox -- Merril Silverstein -- Jeremy Freese -- Steven H. Zarit -- Karl Pillemer and J. Jill Suitor -- Marsha Mailick Seltzer ... [et al.] -- Susan M. McHale and Ann C. Crouter -- Liliana E. Pezzin, Robert A. Pollak, and Barbara S. Schone -- Steven L. Nock, Paul W. Kingston, and Laura M. Holian -- James S. Jackson ... [et al.] -- Adam Davey -- Robert J. Willis -- Cassandra Rasmussen Dorius and Laura Wray-Lake.

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Intergenerational relations.
Caregivers.
Families.

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