Childlessness and Intergenerational Transfers: What is at stake?

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dc.contributor.authorKOHLI, Martin
dc.contributor.authorALBERTINI, Marco
dc.date.accessioned2010-04-23T14:33:02Z
dc.date.available2010-04-23T14:33:02Z
dc.date.issued2009
dc.descriptionSpecial issue on Minimal families: Childlessness and intergenerational transfers, edited by Martin KOHLI and Marco ALBERTINI, Published Online by Cambridge University Press 15 Oct 2009
dc.description.abstractIn this introductory article for the special issue on Childlessness and Intergenerational Transfers, we first discuss the prior research literature and then overview the presented contributions. Up to now, childless older adults have been treated for the most part as both homogeneous and a problematic group. This does not do justice to the different pathways to childlessness: there are those who actively forgo having children, those who defer births so long that they involuntarily become childless, and those who are not fecund or lack a partner. It also neglects the changing social profile of the childless, e.g. the shift from less educated to more highly-educated women. Most importantly, it fails to recognise what childless older people give to others. The studies presented here aim to redress these two deficits in previous research. They examine how the consequences of childlessness are mediated by the pathways to and motivations for being childless and by factors such as gender, education and marital history, and they also examine what childless older adults provide to their families and to society at large. Such adults establish strong linkages with next-of-kin relatives, invest in non-family networks, and participate in voluntary and charitable activities, and broadly do so to a greater extent than older people with surviving children.en
dc.identifier.citationAgeing & Society, 2009, 29, 8, 1171-1183en
dc.identifier.doi10.1017/S0144686X09990341
dc.identifier.issn0144-686X
dc.identifier.issn1469-1779
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1814/13763
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherAgeing & Societyen
dc.titleChildlessness and Intergenerational Transfers: What is at stake?en
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