Purchasing Piety? Coresidence of Married Children With Their Older Parents in Japan

Demography

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1559-1579

  Takagi, Emiko ^a   Silverstein, Merril ^b  

^a TOWSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Coresidence; Filial piety; Intergenerational relationship; Japan; Living arrangement

Indexed keywords

EID: 82355171385     PISSN: 00703370     EISSN: 15337790     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13524-011-0053-0     Document Type: Article

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