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Title Ageing without children : European and Asian perspectives / edited by Philip Kreager and Elisabeth Schröder-Butterfill
Published New York : Berghahn Books, 2004

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 276 pages) : illustrations, map
Series Fertility, reproduction, and sexuality ; v. 6
Fertility, reproduction, and sexuality ; v. 6.
Contents Where are the children? / Philip Kreager -- Problems of elderly without children: a case-study of the matrillineal Minangkabau, West Sumatra / Edi Indrizal -- 'They don't need it, and i can't give it': filial support in South India / Penny Vera-Sanso / Adoption, patronage and charity: arrangements for the elderly without children in East Java / Elisabeth Schröder-Butterfill -- In the absence of family support: cases of childless widows in urban neighbourhoods of East Java / Ruly Marianti -- Demographic change in Europe: implications for future family support for older people / Maria Eandrou, Jane Falkingham -- British Pakistani elderly without children: an invisible minority / Alison Shaw -- Home-place, movement, and autonomy: rural aged in East Anglia and Normandy / Judith Okely -- The position of the elderly in Greece prior to the Second World War: evidence from three island populations / Violetta Hionidou
Analysis Ageing
Notes Series number appears as v. 5 on ser. title page and v. 6 on cover. Publisher Web page indicates v. 6 is correct
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Older people -- Services for -- Europe -- Case studies
Older people -- Services for -- Asia -- Case studies
Childlessness -- Europe
Childlessness -- Asia
Older people -- Services for -- Europe -- Case studies -- Congresses
Older people -- Services for -- Asia -- Case studies -- Congresses
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General
Childlessness
Older people -- Services for
Kinderlosigkeit
Alter
Asia
Europe
Asien
Europa
Genre/Form Case studies
Case studies.
Études de cas.
Form Electronic book
Author Kreager, Philip
Schroeder-Butterfill, E
LC no. 2004053835
ISBN 9781789205794
1789205794
Other Titles Aging without children