Perspectives on theory and policy

• Acknowledgements

• Family, kinship and state in contemporary Europe: a brief overview of the three-volume series

• 1
• Introduction: towards a political economy of kinship and welfare

• 2
• Family, kindred and marriage

• 3
• Remembering and forgetting kin

• 4
• Domestic help

• 5
• Structural help

• 6
• Reciprocity and altruism in practical assistance

• 7
• Close kin influences on fertility behaviour

• 8
• Birth rates, values and social patterns

• 9
• Linkages among adult family generations: evidence from comparative survey research

• 10
• The modern reality of kinship: sources and significance of new kinship forms

• 11
• Macro-regional differences in European kinship culture

• 12
• Family in Europe: urban and rural contexts compared

• 13
• Gender, kinship and the market for social care

• 14
• Kinship, neighbourhood and community in perspective

• 15
• Terminology and practice: European kinship in a world-wide perspective

• 16
• Evolutionary approaches to human behaviour in anthropology: a general overview and application to the KASS project

• 17
• Conclusion: implications for policy

• Appendices: methods used to collect and analyse network data

• Appendix 1
• A brief explanation of the Kinship Network Questionnaire

• Appendix 2
• Data processing for analysis

• Appendix 3
• Sampling, fieldwork and data quality

• Appendix 4
• Other statistical sources used in volumes II and III

• Authors

• Index