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 Schröder-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
Philip Kreager is Lecturer in Human Sciences, Somerville College, and Senior Research Fellow at the Oxford Institute of Ageing.
“by emphasizing the historical and synchronous universality of the childless elderly in the East and the West and by highlighting the social context of their formation and relations, Ageing without Children: European and Asian Perspectives fills a glaring lacuna in demographic studies.” · H-Net Reviews “As a collection of rich case studies…the volume will provide a welcome read and source of enlightening data.” · JRAI
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