Ties that Bind: Families across Time and Space

摘要: __Intro__ Families ‘bind’ people in several ways. They link older and younger generations and facilitate social control. In that view, at the macro level, families are seen to be part of glue holds society together. On a micro impose high degrees dependence on people’s lives. create opportunities – by providing access to different kinds resources, for example but they also constrain daily activities through such obligations as caring your next kin. Most family scholarship focuses two generations members: parents and young children. Departing from this practice, I enlarge scope my research cover relationships over entire life spans to multigenerational connections. This allows me deal better with an important reality is too often ignored. Because we live longer longer, more people with children remain themselves, even grandchildren, their parents and grandparents (Herlofson & Hagestad, 2011). The broader approach take bridges separate bodies literature have remained largely disconnected, and poses promising research questions so far been overlooked.