Kinship and Cohort in an Aging Society: From Generation to Generation

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Contents Foreword, by Toni C. Antonucci ix Acknowledgments xiii Introduction. Solidarity as a Key Concept in Family and Generational Research 1 Merril Silverstein and Roseann Giarrusso part i. Family Connections: Solidarity within and across Generations 9 1 Differences in Mothers’ and Fathers’ Parental Favoritism in Later Life: A Within-Family Approach 11 J. Jill Suitor and Karl Pillemer 2 Intergenerational Solidarity in Blended Families: The Inequality of Financial Transfers to Adult Children and Stepchildren 31 R. Corey Remle and Angela M. O’Rand 3 Generational Contact and Support among Late Adult Siblings within a Verticalized Family 59 Kees Knipscheer and Theo van Tilburg vi Contents part ii. Grandparents in a Changing Demographic Landscape: Mothers and Mentors 77 4 Grandmothers’ Differential Involvement with Grandchildren in Rural Multiple Partner Fertility Family Structures 79 Linda M. Burton, Whitney Welsh, and Lane M. Destro 5 The Role of Grandparents in the Transition to Adulthood: Grandparents as “Very Important” Adults in the Lives of Adolescents 104 Miles G. Taylor, Peter Uhlenberg, Glen H. Elder, Jr., and Steve McDonald part iii. Of Generations and Cohorts: Micro-Macro Dialectics 131 6 Who’s Talking about My Generation? 133 Duane F. Alwin 7 Toward Generational Intelligence: Linking Cohorts, Families, and Experience 159 Simon Biggs and Ariela Lowenstein 8 Biography and Generation: Spirituality and Biographical Pain at the End of Life in Old Age 176 Malcolm Johnson part iv. Religion and Families: Contexts of Continuity, Change, and Conflict 191 9 How Theory-Building Prompts Explanations about Generational Connections in the Domains of Religion, Spirituality, and Aging 193 W. Andrew Achenbaum 10 The Transmission of Religion across Generations: How Ethnicity Matters 209 Norella M. Putney, Joy Y. Lam, Frances Nedjat-Haiem, Thien-Huong Ninh, Petrice S. Oyama, and Susan C. Harris Contents vii 11 Church-Based Negative Interactions among Older African Americans, Caribbean Blacks, and Non-Hispanic Whites 237 Karen D. Lincoln, Linda M. Chatters, and Robert Joseph Taylor part v. Global, Cross-National, and Cross-Ethnic Issues: Who Will Care for the Young and the Old? 263 12 Global Aging and Families: Some Policy Concerns about the Global Aging Perspective 265 Victor W. Marshall 13 Social Change, Social Structure, and the Cycle of Induced Solidarity 284 Dale Dannefer and Rebecca A. Siders 14 The Intergenerational Social Contract Revisited: Cross-National Perspectives 293 Christopher Steven Marcum and Judith Treas 15 Aging, Health, and Families in the Hispanic Population: Evolution of a Paradigm 314 Kyriakos S. Markides, Ronald J. Angel, and M. Kristen Peek Short Biography of Vern L. Bengtson 333 List of Contributors 335 Index 337 This page intentionally left blank ...