This life-course analysis of family development focuses on the social dynamics among family members. It features parent-child relationships in a larger context, by examining the help exchange between kin and nonkin and the intergenerational transmission of family characteristics.
I: Introduction; 1: Problem and Design; II: The Organization of Lives: Age, Aging, and Kinship; 2: Age and Aging; 3: Age, Historic Charge, and Kinship; III: Normative Obligations to Kin; 4: The Structure of Kinship Norms; 5: Variation in obligations to Kin; IV: Dimensions of Parent–Child Solidarity; 6: Solidarity Overview and Analysis Model; 7: Affectional Ties: Past and Preset; 8: Social Interaction between the Generation; 9: Help Exchange between the Generations; 10: Help beyond Death: Legators and Beneficiaries and Written Wills; V: Summary; 11: Overview and Looking Ahead
