Ageing without children : European and Asian perspectives

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Ageing without children : European and Asian perspectives

edited by Philip Kreager and Elisabeth Schröder-Butterfill

（Fertility, reproduction and sexuality, v. 6）

Berghahn Books, 2004

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Aging without children : European and Asian perspectives

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Includes bibliographical referneces and index

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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.

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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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