Intergenerational Caregiving

by Laudan Y. Aron

Dramatic changes in the American family have transformed the way we care for its oldest and youngest members. Nuclear families have become smaller as childbearing has declined, but extended families have become larger as life expectancy grows. Divorce, extramarital childbearing, cohabitation, and remarriage, have increased our number of kin but often complicate relationships and diffuse responsibility for care. In Intergenerational Caregiving, an...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0877667470
• ISBN13: 9780877667476
• Release Date: November 2008
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 420 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.0"