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Family Ties Across the Life Course and Across the Globe

Tue, August 11, 8:00 to 9:30am, TBA

Session Submission Type: Paper Session (90 minute)

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Family members are a cornerstone of support across the life course and often become more important in later life. Demographic and social changes across the globe present both challenges and opportunities for families’ roles in individuals’ human development, social mobility, and healthy aging. Additionally, family ties and relationships may be critical for an individual’s health and well-being, depending on the broader social, economic, cultural, and political landscape in which they are embedded.

This session includes studies that explore the dynamic nature of family ties across the life course, and in diverse social and welfare contexts, to elucidate differences and commonalities in family structures, social support expectations, and their implications for care, health, and well-being at different life course stages. The studies are attentive to the role of major demographic and cultural shifts that may (re)shape family relations including, but not limited to, migration, gender norms, family support norms, and changes in family formation (e.g., delayed or forgone marriage and parenthood). Studies examine single country contexts and cross-national comparisons.

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