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At present, our knowledge of the current state of solidarity between parents and their adult children in Europe is limited. Insight into contemporary intergenerational solidarity is not only important for the well-being of individuals but is also of great interest to policy makers. Patterns of intergenerational solidarity are not only affected by social policies and services but also reveal a number of important social policy issues and dilemmas. Will encouraging labour force participation among women and older workers mean they have less time to care for their dependents? Should formal care services be further expanded to relieve the burden faced by family members with the risk that they start to replace informal care?

This report aims to contribute to this insight by providing a more differentiated picture of the strength, nature and direction of solidarity between parents and their adult children, its variation among European countries and its determinants. Our findings indicate that parent-child ties are quite strong. The majority of Europeans aged 50 and over live in close proximity and are in frequent contact with at least one of the children. Moreover, strong family care obligations still exist and a substantial amount of support is being exchanged between parents and their non-co resident children.

Interesting differences, however, emerge between individuals and countries. While fathers are more inclined to assist their children financially, mothers have more frequent contact and exchange more help in kind with their children. Being religious and having a large family have a positive impact on several dimensions of intergenerational solidarity. Parental divorce and a better socioeconomic position of parents and children, on the other hand, lead to a weakening of parent-child ties in many respects. Contrary to common belief, employed children show solidarity with their parents as much as those without a paid job. Differences in the nature of intergenerational solidarity between the European countries tend to follow the general division into an individualistic north and a familistic south.

Parent and adult child --- Adult child and parent --- Adult children and parents --- Parent-adult child relations --- Parents and adult children --- Parent and child --- Adult children living with parents --- Sandwich generation --- #SBIB:314H127 --- #SBIB:314H210 --- #SBIB:316.356.2H2221 --- Demografie --- Regionale bevolkingsstudies: Europa --- Demografie: algemeenheden --- Gezinssociologie: ouders-kind relaties

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What is life about but the continuous posing of the questions: what happens next, and what do we make of it when it arrives? In these highly evocative personal essays, Douglas Bauer weaves together the stories of his own and his parents' lives, the meals they ate, the work and rewards and regrets that defined them, and the inevitable betrayal by their bodies as they aged. In these clear-eyed, wry and graceful essays, Douglas Bauer presents with candor and humor the dual calendars of his own mortality and that of his aging parents, evoking the regrets and affirmations inherent in being human.

Meaning (Philosophy) --- Life. --- Parent and adult child. --- Aging parents. --- American essays --- Adult child and parent --- Adult children and parents --- Parent-adult child relations --- Parents and adult children --- Parent and child --- Adult children living with parents --- Sandwich generation --- Elderly parents --- Parents, Aged --- Parents --- Life --- Philosophy --- Semantics (Philosophy)

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Aging parents --- Family life surveys --- Intergenerational relations --- Parent and adult child --- S11/0731 --- S11/0702 --- S11/0732 --- China: Social sciences--Childhood, youth --- China: Social sciences--Clan and family in transition: since 1949 --- China: Social sciences--Elderly people --- Adult child and parent --- Adult children and parents --- Parent-adult child relations --- Parents and adult children --- Parent and child --- Adult children living with parents --- Sandwich generation --- Intergenerational relationships --- Relations, Intergenerational --- Relationships, Intergenerational --- Interpersonal relations --- Social surveys --- Elderly parents --- Parents, Aged --- Parents

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"In his memoir In the Shadow of Memory, Floyd Skloot told the story of coming to terms with a brain-ravaging virus. A World of Light moves Skloot's story from the reassembly of a self after neurological calamity to the reconstruction of a shattered life. More than fifteen years after a viral attack compromised his memory and cognitive powers, Skloot now must do the work of re-creating a cohesive life for himself even as he confronts the late stages of his mother's advancing dementia. With tenderness and candor, he finds surprising connection with her where it had long been missing, transforming the end of her life into a time of unexpected renewal." "At the same time, Skloot and his wife are building a rich new life at the center of a small isolated forest on a hillside in rural Oregon, where a dwindling water supply and the bitter assaults of the weather bring an elemental perspective to his attempts to make himself once more at home in the world. A World of Light balances the urgency to capture fragmented, fleeting memories with the necessity of living fully in the present."--Jacket.

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