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Introduction: kinship and family in international context
Wan HeKinship and family have been an interest and focus of multidisciplinary research for decades. Sociologists, demographers, anthropologists, historians, and economists have defined…
Household composition in post‐socialist Eastern Europe
Patricia Ahmed, Rebecca Jean EmighTwo perspectives provide alternative insights into household composition in contemporary Eastern Europe. The first stresses that individuals have relatively fixed preferences…
Co‐residency living arrangement as a factor to facilitate labor force participation of Japanese women: community level analyses of Japanese families
Fumie KumagaiSignificant regional variations by prefecture level exist for the family and the elderly in Japan. This suggests that the Japanese family, and aging society as well, must be…
Patrilineal coresidence in urban China: a life course perspective
Ellen Efron Pimentel, Jinyun LiuIn this paper, we model histories of coresidence between two cohorts of urban Chinese couples, married during the Cultural Revolution and early market reform periods. Most…
Family relations in changing times: a longitudinal study of five cohorts of women
Norella M. Putney, Vern L. BengtsonA major aim of contemporary research on multigenerational families is to investigate changes in intergenerational dynamics within the context of changing historical times. We…
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