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Adoption, patronage and charity: arrangements for the elderly without children in East Java

Adoption, patronage and charity: arrangements for the elderly without children in East Java
Adoption, patronage and charity: arrangements for the elderly without children in East Java
Rapid fertility declines and improved longevity are now shifting the overall balance of population towards older ages in many parts of the world. Within this growing population of older people there are many groups with particular needs about which relatively little is known. This collection focuses on one such sub-population, the elderly without children. Few would deny that childlessness poses potential human and welfare problems for older people without them. What is less well known is that comparative anthropological and historical demographic research indicates that childlessness is a recurring social phenomenon that has affected 1 in 5 older women in many cultures and historical periods. High levels of childlessness arise not solely or primarily from biological factors like primary sterility, but from a combination of factors. Many, like non-marriage, delayed childbearing, and pathological sterility, reflect the interaction of social and biological influences. Also of major importance are factors that remove the support of children from elders' lives: migration, mortality, divorce, remarriage, family enmity, social mobility, and the pressing demands of family and career on younger generations. The papers collected in this volume employ a mixture of quantitative and qualitative methods to define and characterize the experience of ageing without children.
1571816143
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106-146
Berghahn Books
Schröder-Butterfill, Elisabeth
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Kreager, Philip
Schröder-Butterfill, Elisabeth
Schröder-Butterfill, Elisabeth
b10e106a-4d5d-4f41-a7d2-9549ba425711
Kreager, Philip
Schröder-Butterfill, Elisabeth

Schröder-Butterfill, Elisabeth (2005) Adoption, patronage and charity: arrangements for the elderly without children in East Java. In, Kreager, Philip and Schröder-Butterfill, Elisabeth (eds.) Ageing without Children: European and Asian Perspectives. (Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality, 6) Oxford. Berghahn Books, pp. 106-146.

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Rapid fertility declines and improved longevity are now shifting the overall balance of population towards older ages in many parts of the world. Within this growing population of older people there are many groups with particular needs about which relatively little is known. This collection focuses on one such sub-population, the elderly without children. Few would deny that childlessness poses potential human and welfare problems for older people without them. What is less well known is that comparative anthropological and historical demographic research indicates that childlessness is a recurring social phenomenon that has affected 1 in 5 older women in many cultures and historical periods. High levels of childlessness arise not solely or primarily from biological factors like primary sterility, but from a combination of factors. Many, like non-marriage, delayed childbearing, and pathological sterility, reflect the interaction of social and biological influences. Also of major importance are factors that remove the support of children from elders' lives: migration, mortality, divorce, remarriage, family enmity, social mobility, and the pressing demands of family and career on younger generations. The papers collected in this volume employ a mixture of quantitative and qualitative methods to define and characterize the experience of ageing without children.

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Published date: 2005

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Local EPrints ID: 42807
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/42807
ISBN: 1571816143
PURE UUID: 4265c438-bdf1-44c6-be4a-3eb3b97395ed
ORCID for Elisabeth Schröder-Butterfill: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-5071-8710

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Date deposited: 19 Jan 2007
Last modified: 23 Jul 2022 01:57

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Editor: Philip Kreager
Editor: Elisabeth Schröder-Butterfill

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