Sustainability and the Currency of Intergenerational Obligations: Norton, Solow, Rawls, Mill, and Sen on Problems of Intergenerational Allocation

2018 ◽  
pp. 49-70
Author(s):  
Clark Wolf
Keyword(s):  
Intergenerational Obligations

Acculturation and Latinos' Beliefs About Intergenerational Obligations to Older Parents and Stepparents

2007 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 65-82 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marilyn Coleman ◽  
Lawrence Ganong ◽  
Tanja Rothrauff
Keyword(s):  
Older Parents ◽  
Intergenerational Obligations

Grandparents and grandchildren: care and support in Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam

2014 ◽  
Vol 35 (9) ◽  
pp. 1960-1988 ◽  
Author(s):  
JOHN KNODEL ◽  
MINH DUC NGUYEN
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Adult Children ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Older Persons ◽  
Fertility Trends ◽  
Care And Support ◽  
Societal Context ◽  
And Migration ◽  
Intergenerational Obligations ◽  
Demographic Context

ABSTRACTRecent surveys in Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam reveal that substantial proportions of persons aged 60 and older co-reside with grandchildren and commonly provide grandparental care. Usually the grandchildren's parents are also present. Situations in which the grandchildren's parents are absent are considerably less frequent. Parents are commonly the main source of the grandchildren's financial support even if absent. Most grandparents that provide care do not consider it a serious burden even when the grandchild's parents are absent. Moreover, grandparental care is not always one-directional as grandchildren can also be of help to grandparents. These features of grandchild care reflect a regional cultural context that views acceptance of reciprocal intergenerational obligations as normal and in which co-residence of older persons and adult children is still common. Differences in economic development and past fertility trends account for much of the observed differences in grandparental care among the three countries by affecting grandchildren availability and migration of adult children. In addition, economic development and demographic trends will continue to shape grandparental care in the coming decades. Despite the lack of attention to development and demographic context in previous studies, these aspects of the changing societal context deserve a prominent place within conceptual frameworks guiding comparative research on grandparenting.

Personalizing Immigrant Sacrifices

2015 ◽  
Vol 37 (10) ◽  
pp. 1331-1354 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hyeyoung Kang ◽  
Marcela Raffaelli
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Immigrant Families ◽  
Korean American ◽  
Positive Interactions ◽  
Cultural Norms ◽  
Filial Responsibility ◽  
Semistructured Interviews ◽  
Intergenerational Obligations

This research explored Korean American (KA) young adults’ experiences related to their sense of indebtedness toward their parents and perceptions of how indebtedness affected their behavior toward parents. Semistructured interviews were conducted with 25 KA young adults from immigrant families. Most respondents narrated their sense of indebtedness to parents, verbally acknowledging appreciation for parents’ hardship and sacrifice; however, they differed in how much they internalized indebtedness, varying in level of personalization and perception of salience of indebtedness. Similarly, youth did not differ in how they described the role of their felt indebtedness in shaping their behavior toward parents (including filial responsibility, desire for success, and promoting positive interactions) but their motivations and interpretations of these behaviors differed depending on the degree of internalization of sense of indebtedness. Taken as a whole, findings suggest within-group variations in how KA young adults deal with collective cultural norms regarding intergenerational obligations and relationships.

Social Discounting

1989 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-46 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Tenenbaum
Keyword(s):  
Discount Rate ◽  
Social Discount Rate ◽  
Government Investment ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Economic Allocation ◽  
Social Discounting ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Status ◽  
Intergenerational Obligations ◽  
Selection Of

The social discount rate – the rate at which future benefit flows from government investment are discounted to present value – has been a frequent subject of technical debate among professional economists. From a broader perspective, however, the selection of an appropriate rate enjoins consideration of questions that define the very contours of our public philosophy. It carries implicit assumptions about the nature of citizenship, the relation between public and private spheres, and, most singularly, the status of a political society as it is located in time. A key determinant of intertemporal economic allocation, the social discount rate provides a unique registry of a polity's historical consciousness and perceptions of its intergenerational obligations. Yet the highly technical nature of the debate over the discount rate has proven inhospitable to scholars otherwise inclined to investigate its ethical dimensions. Some, notably A. K. Sen, have begun to address these philosophical issues, though much territory remains to be explored.

Indigenizing military citizenship: remaking state responsibility and care towards Māori veterans’ health through the Treaty of Waitangi

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-50
Author(s):  
Tarapuhi Bryers-Brown ◽  
Catherine Trundle
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Military Service ◽  
Nuclear Test ◽  
The State ◽  
State Responsibility ◽  
Veterans Health ◽  
Indigenous Groups ◽  
Treaty Of Waitangi ◽  
Waitangi Tribunal ◽  
Intergenerational Obligations

How does militarism reshape indigenous peoples’ relationships with settler states? In this article, we explore how military service both opens up and forecloses avenues for indigenous groups to claim new modes of responsibility, care and relationality from the state. Through a discussion of New Zealand Māori nuclear test veterans’ recent legal claims through the Waitangi Tribunal, we detail the range of ways that Māori veterans utilize and rework ethnic identity categories to encompass wider notions of citizenship, care and responsibility, and challenge neoliberal models of reparations. Claimants argue that their ongoing wellbeing sits at the centre of their partnership with the state, revealing how uneasily the Māori military body fits within mainstream logics of Treaty claim-making. Seeking healthcare and wellbeing here does not demand greater autonomy or independence, but requires ongoing interdependence, practices of care and attention to ongoing intergenerational obligations that, like radiation harm, have no clear endpoints.

scholarly journals Parental Migration, Intergenerational Obligations and the Paradox for Left-Behind Boys in Rural China

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 68-87 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nan Zhang ◽  
Tarani Chandola ◽  
Laia Bécares ◽  
Peter Callery
Keyword(s):  
Rural China ◽  
Parental Migration ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
Intergenerational Obligations

The ethics of intergenerational relationships

2017 ◽  
Vol 47 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 313-326 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janna Thompson
Keyword(s):  
Intergenerational Relationships ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Relational Approach ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
Intergenerational Obligations ◽  
The Relationship

AbstractAccording to the relational approach we have obligations to members of future generations not because of their interests or properties but because, and only because, they are our descendants or successors. Common accounts of relational duties do not explain how we can have obligations to people who do not yet exist. In this defence of the relational approach I examine three sources of intergenerational obligations: the concern of parents for their children, including their future children; the desire of community members to pass on a heritage to their descendants; and the relationship of citizens in an intergenerational polity.

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