Kinship and Cohort in an Aging Society

Merril Silverstein is the Marjorie Cantor Professor of Aging at Syracuse University. Roseann Giarrusso is an associate professor of gerontology and sociology at the California State University, Los Angeles.

Foreword, by Toni C. Antonucci
Acknowledgments
Introduction. Solidarity as a Key Concept in Family and Generational Research
Part I: Family Connections: Solidarity Within and Across Generations
Chapter 1. Differences in Mothers' and Fathers' Parental Favoritism in Later Life: A Within-Family Approach
Chapter 2. Intergenerational Solidarity in Blended Families: The Inequality of Financial Transfers to Adult Children and Stepchildren
Chapter 3. Generational Contact and Support among Late Adult Siblings Within a Verticalized Family
Part II: Grandparents in a Changing Demographic Landscape: Mothers and Mentors
Chapter 4. Grandmothers' Diff erential Involvement with Grandchildren in Rural Multiple Partner Fertility Family Structures
Chapter 5. The Role of Grandparents in the Transition to Adulthood: Grandparents as "Very Important" Adults in the Lives of Adolescents
Part III: Of Generations and Cohorts: Micro-Macro Dialectics
Chapter 6. Who's Talking about My Generation?
Chapter 7. Toward Generational Intelligence: Linking Cohorts, Families, and Experience
Chapter 8. Biography and Generation: Spirituality and Biographical Pain at the End of Life in Old Age
Part IV: Religion and Families: Contexts of Continuity, Change, and Conflict
Chapter 9. How Theory-Building Prompts Explanations about Generational Connections in the Domains of Religion, Spirituality, and Aging
Chapter 10. The Transmission of Religion across Generations: How Ethnicity Matters
Chapter 11. Church-Based Negative Interactions among Older African Americans, Caribbean Blacks, and Non-Hispanic Whites
Part V: Global, Cross-National, and Cross-Ethnic Issues: Who Will Care for the Young and the Old?
Chapter 12. Global Aging and Families: Some Policy Concerns about the Global Aging Perspective
Chapter 13. Social Change, Social Structure, and the Cycle of Induced Solidarity
Chapter 14. The Intergenerational Social Contract Revisited: Cross-National Perspectives
Chapter 15. Aging, Health, and Families in the Hispanic Population: Evolution of a Paradigm
Short Biography of Vern L. Bengtson
List of Contributors
Index