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Minimal families — childlessness and intergenerational transfers
Author(s)	Martin Kohli, Marco Albertini
Journal title	Ageing and Society, vol 29, part 8, November 2009
Pages	pp 1171-1274
Source	http://www.journals.cambridge.org/aso
Keywords	Childless ; Family relationships ; Legacies ; Donations ; Gifts [elderly] ; Integration.
Annotation	The proportion of childless adults has increased substantially in most of the low fertility countries in Europe. Six articles in this special issue of Ageing and Society consider ways in which childless older people transfer their assets to next-in-line kin (nephews, nieces, brothers and sisters), make donations to charitable organisations, or use social capital to benefit civil society. The articles include consideration of: the social conditions of very old childless people living in rural Wales; factors that encourage charitable giving and philanthropy in Germany and the United States; who received financial gifts from the childless in the United States; and the well-being of Dutch fathers and childless men in mid-life. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-091026201 A
Classmark	SU: DS:SJ: QE7: QEB: JFG: TO
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