Special Collection 11

Intergenerational family ties in Europe: Multiple linkages between individuals, families and social contexts

Published 11 October 2012

This Special Collection was edited by Pearl A. Dykstra. The papers in this special collection were prepared in the context of MULTILINKS (http://www.multilinks-project.eu/), a programme of research funded through the Seventh Framwork of the European Commission. The full title of the programme is: “How demographic changes shape intergenerational solidarity, well-being, and social integration: A multilinks framework”. The objective of MULTILINKS has been to investigate how changing social contexts, from macro-societal to micro-interpersonal, affect social integration, well-being and intergenerational solidarity across different European nations. Debates on ageing societies predominantly focus on the circumstances of the old. The MULTILINKS approach built from three key premises. First, ageing affects all age groups: the young, the middle-aged, and the old. Second, there are critical interdependencies between family generations and between men and women. Third, one must recognize and distinguish analytical levels: the individual, dyad (parent-child, partners), family, region, historical generation, and country.

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23 December 2004 | descriptive finding

Childbearing patterns for Swedish mothers of twins, 1961-1999

Jan M. Hoem, Margit Strandberg

Volume: 11 Article ID: 15
Pages: 421–454
DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2004.11.15

17 December 2004 | research article

Marital Dissolution in Japan: Recent Trends and Patterns

James Raymo, Miho Iwasawa, Larry L. Bumpass

Volume: 11 Article ID: 14
Pages: 395–420
DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2004.11.14

15 December 2004 | research material

Perinatal mortality in the Netherlands. Backgrounds of a worsening international ranking

Joop Garssen, Anouschka van der Meulen

Volume: 11 Article ID: 13
Pages: 357–394
DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2004.11.13

10 December 2004 | research article

Education at home: the age-specific pattern of migration between the Netherlands and the former Dutch East Indies around 1930

Evert van Imhoff, Gijs Beets

Volume: 11 Article ID: 12
Pages: 335–356
DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2004.11.12

08 December 2004 | research article

Teen Fertility and Gender Inequality in Education: A Contextual Hypothesis

Parfait M. Eloundou-Enyegue, C. Shannon Stokes

Volume: 11 Article ID: 11
Pages: 305–334
DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2004.11.11

03 December 2004 | research article

Estimating time-varying sex-age-specific o/e rates of marital status transitions in family household projection or simulation

Yi Zeng, Eric Stallard, Zhenglian Wang

Volume: 11 Article ID: 10
Pages: 263–304
DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2004.11.10

30 November 2004 | research article

A Method for Estimating Size of Population Aged 90 and over with Application to the U.S. Census 2000 Data

Kirill F. Andreev

Volume: 11 Article ID: 9
Pages: 235–262
DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2004.11.9

23 September 2004 | research article

Australia's uncertain demographic future

Tom Wilson, Martin Bell

Volume: 11 Article ID: 8
Pages: 195–234
DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2004.11.8

17 September 2004 | research material

Trends in East-West German Migration from 1989 to 2002

Frank W. Heiland

Volume: 11 Article ID: 7
Pages: 173–194
DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2004.11.7

14 September 2004 | research article

Is marriage losing its centrality in Italy?

Alessandro Rosina, Romina Fraboni

Volume: 11 Article ID: 6
Pages: 149–172
DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2004.11.6

07 September 2004 | research article

Grandparental effects on reproductive strategizing: Nôbi villagers in Early Modern Japan

G. William Skinner

Volume: 11 Article ID: 5
Pages: 111–148
DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2004.11.5

27 August 2004 | research material

Demographic trends in Sweden: An update of childbearing and nuptiality up to 2002

Gunnar Andersson

Volume: 11 Article ID: 4
Pages: 95–110
DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2004.11.4

26 August 2004 | research article

Qualitative data in demography: The sound of silence and other problems

Sara Randall, Todd Koppenhaver

Volume: 11 Article ID: 3
Pages: 57–94
DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2004.11.3

13 August 2004 | research article

Under-Five Mortality in Nigeria: Perception and Attitudes of the Yorubas Towards the Existence of "Abiku"

Peter Olasupo Ogunjuyigbe

Volume: 11 Article ID: 2
Pages: 43–56
DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2004.11.2

04 August 2004 | research article

Sociodemographic Effects on the Onset and Recovery of ADL Disability among Chinese Oldest-old

Danan Gu, Yi Zeng

Volume: 11 Article ID: 1
Pages: 1–42
DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2004.11.1