Intergenerational Family Relations
This book offers a synthesis of social science and evolutionary approaches to the study of intergenerational relations, using biological, psychological and sociological factors to develop a single framework for understanding why kin help one another across generations. With attention to both biological family relations and in-law and step-relations, it provides an overview of existing studies centred on intergenerational relations particularly grandparenting that incorporate social science and evolutionary family theories. This evolutionary social science approach to intergenerational family relations goes well beyond the traditional nature versus nurture distinction. As such, it will appeal to scholars across a range of disciplines with interests in relations of kinship, the lifecourse and the sociology of the family.
Antti O. Tanskanen is Senior Researcher in the Department of Social Research at the University of Turku, Finland.
Mirkka Danielsbacka is Senior Researcher in the Department of Social Research at the University of Turku, Finland.
This book is of interest to all family scholars but in particular those scientists seeking to understand better the complexities of intergenerational relations. The real pleasure in reading this book is that it challenges ones traditional thinking about intergenerational relations. I strongly recommend it to all family scholars but particularly those seeking new ideas.
Ann Buchanan, Professor Emeritus, Department of Social Policy and Intervention, University of Oxford, UK
In a rapidly ageing world, the contributions that grandparents make to children, and the pleasures that they derive from making those contributions, are hot topics of research and discussion in the social sciences. In this timely review and synthesis of what anthropologists, demographers, evolutionary biologists, historians, psychologists and sociologists have separately discovered about grandparents, Tanskanen and Danielsbacka provide an invaluable resource for workers in all these fields, as well as for those struggling to bring evidence-based practice to social work and other applied areas.
Martin Daly, Professor Emeritus, Department of Psychology, Neuroscience and Behaviour, McMaster University, Canada
It is only fitting that social scientists from the homeland of Westermarck should be the first to blend biological and social science approaches to the study of intergenerational relations and the family. Tanskanen and Danielsbacka show how theories from social science and biology are complementary and can be seamlessly blended together to organize and explain findings from the study of intergenerational relations, plus generate new hypotheses for further studies. A must read for anyone with an interest in the study of intergenerational relations and the family.
Rosemary L. Hopcroft, Professor, Department of Sociology, University of North Carolina, USA
This ambitious book provides an inclusive synthesis concerning studies on intergenerational relations among humans. Reading this book will strongly benefit all biologists and social scientists working with family relations.
Virpi Lummaa, Professor, Department of Biology, University of Turku, Finland
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An Evolutionary Social Science Approach
Antti O. Tanskanen and Mirkka Danielsbacka
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Contents
Life expectancy in selected countries.
Childparentgrandparent relationships from the childs perspective. Picture designed by Lasse Mtt.
Grandparentchildgrandchild relationships from grandparents perspective. Picture designed by Lasse Mtt.
Biological and non-biological intergenerational family relationships. Picture designed by Lasse Mtt.
(a) Family types in which mothers have children with different partners. (b) Family types in which fathers have children with different partners. Picture designed by Lasse Mtt.
Family types when mothers have a stepparent (example in the figure considers maternal grandfathers step-relatedness to a grandchild). Picture designed by Lasse Mtt.
Family types when mothers have foster or adoptive parents (example in the figure considers maternal grandparents relatedness to a grandchild). Picture designed by Lasse Mtt.
Family types when children have foster or adoptive parents. Picture designed by Lasse Mtt.
Relatedness among aunts, uncles, parents and niece/nephew. Picture designed by Lasse Mtt.
Relatedness among aunt, uncle, parents and niece/nephew when maternal aunt and paternal uncle are monozygotic twins to mother and father. Picture designed by Lasse Mtt.
Relatedness among aunts, uncles, parents and niece/nephew when aunts and uncles are half-siblings to mother and father. Picture designed by Lasse Mtt.
Degree of genetic relatedness between the self and kin
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