The 2002 exchange on ambivalence in the Journal of Marriage and Family (Vol. 64, No. 3),
published under the editorship of Alexis Walker, prompted an impressive array of research …

This Review develops a theoretical framework for the development and onset of vulnerability
in later life based on the concept of reserves. We stress the advantages of using the concept …

Interest in the study of vulnerability has experienced impressive growth across various
disciplines. To contribute to this major but scattered development in the study of …

Pierre Bourdieu is arguably the most influential sociologist of the twentieth century,
especially since the once common criticisms of his determinism and reproductionism have …

Taking transnational families of Romanian migrants in Canada and Switzerland as a case in
point, this paper accounts for the emergence of new patterns of “grandparenting” and “doing …

Two leading social scientists examine the gender wealth gap in countries with officially
egalitarian property law, showing how legal professionals—wittingly and unwittingly—help …

Family farming, understood as a household which combines family, farm and commercial
activity, still represents the backbone of the world's agriculture. On family farms, labour …

This first special issue dedicated to grandparenting patterns and their significance within
transnational families sheds new light on transnational grandparenting as a phenomenon …

The structure of adolescents' families, and thus parental forms, in the United States, have
become more heterogeneous and fluid over the past several decades. These changes are …

In recent years the idea of ambivalence has found rising attention in the field of
intergenerational relationships studies and practice. It allows one to consider the …