Ageing without children : European and Asian perspectives
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書誌事項
Ageing without children : European and Asian perspectives
(Fertility, reproduction and sexuality, v. 6)
Berghahn Books, 2004
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Aging without children : European and Asian perspectives
大学図書館所蔵 全9件
  青森
  岩手
  宮城
  秋田
  山形
  福島
  茨城
  栃木
  群馬
  埼玉
  千葉
  東京
  神奈川
  新潟
  富山
  石川
  福井
  山梨
  長野
  岐阜
  静岡
  愛知
  三重
  滋賀
  京都
  大阪
  兵庫
  奈良
  和歌山
  鳥取
  島根
  岡山
  広島
  山口
  徳島
  香川
  愛媛
  高知
  福岡
  佐賀
  長崎
  熊本
  大分
  宮崎
  鹿児島
  沖縄
  韓国
  中国
  タイ
  イギリス
  ドイツ
  スイス
  フランス
  ベルギー
  オランダ
  スウェーデン
  ノルウェー
  アメリカ
注記
Includes bibliographical referneces and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
Rapid fertility declines and improved longevity are now shifting the overall balance of population towards older ages in many parts of the world. Within this growing population of older people there are many groups with particular needs about which relatively little is known. This collection focuses on one such sub-population, the elderly without children. Few would deny that childlessness poses potential human and welfare problems for older people without them. What is less well known is that comparative anthropological and historical demographic research indicates that childlessness is a recurring social phenomenon that has affected 1 in 5 older women in many cultures and historical periods. High levels of childlessness arise not solely or primarily from biological factors like primary sterility, but from a combination of actors. Many, like non-marriage, delayed childbearing , and pathological sterility, reflect the interaction of social and biological influences.
Also of major importance are factors that remove the support of children from elders' lives: migration, mortality, divorce, remarriage, family enmity, social mobility, and the pressing demands of family and career on younger generations. The papers collected in this volume employ a mixture of quantitative and qualitative methods to define and characterize the experience of ageing without children.
目次
List of Figures
List of Tables
Foreword
Chapter 1. Where are the Children?
Philip Kreager
PART I: ASIA
Chapter 2. Problems of Elderly without Children: A Case-study of the Matrilineal Minangkabau, West Sumatra
Edi Indrizal
Chapter 3. 'They Don't Need It, and I Can't Give It': Filial Support in South India
Penny Vera-Sanso
Chapter 4. Adoption, Patronage and Charity: Arrangements for the Elderly without Children in East Java
Elisabeth Schroeder-Butterfill
Chapter 5. In the Absence of Family Support: Cases of Childless Widows in Urban Neighbourhoods of East Java
Ruly Marianti
PART II: EUROPE
Chapter 6. Demographic Change in Europe: Implications for Future Family Support for Older People
Maria Evandrou and Jane Falkingham
Chapter 7. British Pakistani Elderly without Children: An Invisible Minority
Alison Shaw
Chapter 8. Home-place, Movement and Autonomy: Rural Aged in East Anglia and Normandy
Judith Okely
Chapter 9. The Position of the Elderly in Greece Prior to the Second World War: Evidence from Three Island Populations
Violetta Hionidou
Notes on Contributors
Index
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