CHAIRPERSON
Prof Wei-Jun Jean Yeung, Asia Research Institute, and Department of Sociology, National University of Singapore.
ABSTRACT
Rapidly aging societies will experience increased demands for support of older people by family members as pressures mount to reduce the public costs of supporting the aging population. This essay explores the family’s capacity to respond to these growing challenges. In particular, we examine how family change and growing inequality poses special problems in developed nations, especially the United States. The MacArthur Network on an Aging Society has mounted a series of studies to examine the future of intergenerational exchange to examine both the future demand for increased support and the capacity of families to meet these demands. We focus particularly on adults who have dependent and young adult children and who also must care for elderly parents, a fraction of the population that will grow substantially in the coming 25 years.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Frank F. Furstenberg, Jr. is the Zellerbach Family Professor of Sociology and Research associate in the Population Studies Center at the University of Pennsylvania. His interest in the American family began at Columbia University where he received his PhD in 1967. His previous books and articles center on children, youth, families, and the public. His current research projects focus on the family in the context of disadvantaged urban neighborhoods, adolescent sexual behavior, cross national research on children’s well-being, and intergenerational transfers. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Institute of Medicine. – See more at: http://www.bctr.cornell.edu/events/2013-bronfenbrenner-lecture-frank-furstenberg/#sthash.3cCP0ta1.dpuf
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