Contemporary essays excerpted from a larger volume entitled: Aging and generational relations over the life course. Volume resulted from the International Conference on Aging and Generational Relations over the Life Course, University of Delaware, October, 1992.

Inclou referències bibliogràfiques i índex.

The generation in the middle: cohort comparisons in assistance to aging parents in an American community / Tamara K. Hareven and Kathleen J. Adams -- Fathers and sons in rural America: occupational choice and intergenerational ties across the life course / Glen H. Elder, Jr., Elizabeth B. Robertson, and Rand D. Conger -- The well-being of aging Americans with very old parents / Dennis P. Hogan, David J. Eggebeen, and Sean M. Snaith -- Exchanges within Black American three-generation families: the family environment context model / James S. Jackson, Rukmalie Jayakody, and Toni C. Antonucci -- The demography of family care for the elderly / Douglas A. Wolf, Beth J. Soldo, Vicki Freedman -- Asymmetry in intergenerational family relationships in Italy / Marzio Barbagli -- Equity between generations in aging societies: the problem of assessing public policies / Anne-Marie Guillemard -- Types of supports for the aged and their providers in Taiwan / Albert J. Hermalin, Mary Beth Ofstedal, and Ming-Cheng Chang -- Familial support and the life course of Thai elderly and their children -- John Knodel, Napaporn Chayovan, and Siriwan Siriboon -- Intergenerational support in Sri Lanka: the elderly and their children -- Peter Uhlenberg -- Generational relations and their changes as they affect the status of older people in Japan / Kiyomi Morioka -- Generational relations: a future perspective / Matilda White Riley and John W. Riley, Jr.