Intergenerational ambivalences new perspectives on parent-child relations in later life /

This book is an in-depth, cutting-edge report on the intergenerational ambivalence perspective: an innovative framework for understanding parent-adult child relationships that has emerged from work in several disciplines such as sociology, psychology, history, and family therapy in the US and Europe...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Pillemer, Karl A., Lüscher, Kurt
Format: e-Book
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier/JAI, 2004.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Contemporary perspectives on family research ; v. 4.
Subjects:
Parent and adult child.
Older people > Family relationships.
Intergenerational relations.
Ambivalence.
Social theory.
Sociology: family & relationships.
Social Science > Sociology > Marriage & Family.
Online Access:Full-text access
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Ambivalence in Parent-Child Relations in Later Life / Karl Pillemer and Kurt Luscher
  • Conceptualizing and Uncovering Intergenerational Ambivalence / Kurt Luscher
  • Intergenerational Ambivalences in the Past - A Social-Historical Assessment / Andrejs Plakans
  • Methodological Issues in Assessing Ambivalences in Intergenerational Relations / Frank Lettke and David M. Klein
  • Can't Live With 'Em, Can't Live Without 'Em: Mothers' Ambivalence Toward Their Adult Children / Karl Pillemer
  • Intergenerational Ambivalence in the Context of the Larger Social Network / Karen L. Fingerman and Elizabeth Hay
  • Intergenerational Ambivalence: Methods, Measures, and Results of the Konstanz Study / Kurt Luscher and Frank Lettke
  • The Filial Task in Midlife: Ambivalence and the Quality of Adult Children's Relationships with Their Old-Aged Parents / Frieder R. Lang
  • Ambiguous Loss and Ambivalence When a Parent Has Dementia / Pauline Boss and Lori Kaplan
  • The Ambivalences of Parental Care Among Young German Adults / Dagmar Lorenz-Meyer
  • The Experience of Ambivalence Within the Family: Young Adults "Coming Out" Gay or Lesbian and Their Parents / Bertram J. Cohler
  • Ambivalence and Attachment in Family Relationships / Gregory R. Maio, Frank D. Fincham, Camillo Regalia and F. Giorgia Paleari
  • The Once and Future Parents: Exploring the Impact of Early Parental Memories on the Anticipated Life Histories of Young Adults / Harry G. Segal.

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