Family and Support Systems across the Life Span

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
The Isolated Nuclear Family: Fact or Fiction....Pages 1-10
Law and Legal Systems: The Family Connection 1981 Burgess Award Address....Pages 11-34
The Art and Science of Family Sociology....Pages 35-44
Family as a Many Splendored Concept....Pages 45-55
Cross-Cultural Research: A Safari Approach....Pages 57-62
Intimate vs Non-Intimate Support Networks....Pages 63-72
Head Start’s Influence on Parental and Child Competence....Pages 73-97
From Latchkey Stereotypes Toward Self-Care Realities....Pages 99-104
Misers and Wastrels: Perceptions of the Depression and YUPPIE Generations....Pages 105-120
Tracing the Disadvantages of First-Generation College Students: An Application of Sussman’s Option Sequence Model....Pages 121-134
Exchange and Power in Marriage in Cultural Context: Bombay and Minneapolis Comparisons....Pages 135-154
Intergenerational Transactions of Values: A Case Study of Career Changes in Midlife....Pages 155-163
Parental and Filial Relationships: Obligation, Support and Abuse....Pages 165-182
Mother-Daughter Bonds in the Later Years: Transformation of the ‘Help Pattern’....Pages 183-195
Cross-Gender Relationships at Work and Home Over the Family Life Cycle....Pages 197-212
Households of the Elders....Pages 213-224
Professional Client Relationships and the Older Patient....Pages 225-242
The Walking Patient and the Revolt of the Client: Impetus to Develop New Models of Physician-Patient Roles....Pages 243-256
Social Supports and Mortality Rates: A Disease Specific Formulation....Pages 257-281
Back Matter....Pages 283-291