Authors: Maximiliane Szinovacz (Editor), Barbara H. Vinick, David J. Ekerdt (Editor), Barbara H. Vinick
ISBN-13: 9780803941953, ISBN-10: 0803941951
Format: Paperback
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date Published: March 1992
Edition: New Edition
What are the long term effects of retirement on family relationships? Do personality characteristics or attitudes of one spouse impinge on the other spouse's retirement plans and adjustment? What differences exist in the ways males and females adapt to retirement? Leading researchers in the fields of family studies and gerontology present enlightening information on the impact of retirement on family relations. Original essays focus on gender and ethnic differences, the role of children, siblings, and significant others, and the multiple changes retirement creates in marriage. In addition, a variety of theoretical models, existing research, and methodological problems in studying retired families are explored. Families and Retirement is essential reading for graduate students, researchers, and professionals in gerontology, sociology, social work, family psychology, and policy studies. "This is a well-written book. The editors have done a great job in selecting chapter authors whose research is important and directly related to the focus of the book. . . . The book will be an excellent text for sociology classes focusing mainly on retirement. It will also serve well as a supplemental text in gerontology, family studies, economics, and other college and university courses wherein retirement is studied." --Journal of Marriage and the Family "Just when it seems too complex a task to produce a text that addresses retirement from the perspective of the family, a new work appears that does just that. . . . The editors have successfully expanded [the] traditional concern with the individual by choosing studies showing relationships and issues on aspects of retirement and family."--Family Relations
Foreword | ||
Acknowledgments | ||
1 | Families and Retirement: Conceptual and Methodological Issues | 1 |
Pt. I | Demographic, Historical, and Policy Issues | |
2 | Men and Women in Their Retirement Years: A Demographic Profile | 23 |
3 | The "Family Fund": Strategies for Security in Old Age in the Industrial Era | 51 |
4 | Family Provisions in Old-Age Pensions: Twenty Industrial Nations | 64 |
Pt. II | Retirement Timing: Life-Course Perspectives | |
5 | Family Pathways to Retirement | 81 |
6 | Family Responsibilities and Women's Retirement | 99 |
7 | Marital Status and Retirement Plans: Do Widowhood and Divorce Make a Difference? | 114 |
Pt. III | Marital Relationships and the Retirement Experience | |
8 | Couples View Retirement Activities: Expectation Versus Experience | 129 |
9 | Retirement and Marital Satisfaction | 145 |
10 | Couples in Retirement: Division of Household Work | 159 |
11 | Conjugal Support Among Working-Wife and Retired-Wife Couples | 174 |
12 | Equity in Older Families | 189 |
Pt. IV | Retirement and Extended Kin Relationships | |
13 | Family and Retirement in the Context of Elderly Migration | 205 |
14 | The Context of Retired Women as Caregivers | 222 |
15 | Social Activities and Retirement Adaptation: Gender and Family Variations | 236 |
16 | Families and Retirement: Avenues for Future Research | 254 |
References | 262 | |
Name Index | 285 | |
Subject Index | 292 | |
About the Authors | 299 |