Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Aging and Generational Relations Over the Life Course / Hareven, Tamara ¿. -- Kinship and Care for the Aged in Traditional Rural Iberia / Brandes, Stanley -- Household Patterns of the Elderly and the Proximity of Children in a Nineteenth-Century City, Verviers, Belgium, 1831-1846 / Alter, George / Cliggett, Lisa / Urbiel, Alex -- The Life Stairs: Aging, Generational Relations, and Small Commodity Production in Central Europe / Ehmer, Josef -- Aging in a Never-Empty Nest: The Elasticity of the Stem Family / Fauve-Chamoux, Antoinette -- The Family, State Support and Generational Relations in Rural Ireland at the Turn of the Twentieth Century / Guinnane, Timothy W. -- Relations Between Older Adults and Their Adult Children in a Nineteenth-Century Italian Town / Kertzer, David I. / Hogan, Dennis P. -- Retirement, Inheritance, and Generational Relations: Life-Course Analysis in Historic Eastern Europe / Plakans, Andrejs -- Gender, Rural-Urban and Socio-Economic Differences In Coresidence of the Elderly with Adult Children: The Case of Sweden 1860-1940 / Tedebrand, Lars-Göran -- Asymmetry in Intergenerational Family Relationships in Italy / Barbagli, Marzio -- Equity Between Generations in Aging Societies: The Problem of Assessing Public Policies / Guillemard, Anne-Marie -- Residence and Family Support Systems for Widows In Nineteenth and Early Twentieth-Century Texas / Zachritz, Jane / Gutmann, Myron P. -- Living Arrangements of the Elderly in America: 1880-1980 / Ruggles, Steven -- The Generation in the Middle: Cohort Comparisons in Assistance to Aging Parents in an American Community / Hareven, Tamara ¿. / Adams, Kathleen -- Fathers and Sons in Rural America: Occupational Choice and Intergenerational Ties Across the Life Course / Elder, Glen H. / Robertson, Elizabeth B. / Conger, Rand D. -- The Well-Being of Aging Americans With Very Old Parents / Hogan, Dennis P. / Eggebeen, David J. / Snaith, Sean M. -- Exchanges Within Black American Three-Generation Families: The Family Environment Context Model / Jackson, James S. / Jayakody, Rukmalie / Antonucci, Toni C. -- The Demography of Family Care for the Elderly / Wolf, Douglas A. / Soldo, Beth J. / Freedman, Vicki -- Types of Supports for the Aged and Their Providers in Taiwan / Hermalin, Albert I. / Ofstedal, Mary Beth / Chang, Ming-Cheng -- Familial Support and the Life Course of Thai Elderly and Their Children / Knodel, John / Chayovan, Napaporn / Siriboon, Siriwan -- Intergenerational Support In Sri Lanka: The Elderly and Their Children / Uhlenberg, Peter -- Some Inter- and Intracohort Comparisons of Generational Interactions: From the Acquisition of Parental Roles through Postparenthood in Japan, 1914-1958 / Masaoka, Kanji / Fujimi, Sumiko -- Generational Relations and Their Changes As They Affect the Status of Older People in Japan / Morioka, Kiyomi -- Generational Relations: A Future Perspective / Riley, Matilda White / Riley, John W.