Abstract

Kinship and Cohort in an Aging Society: From Generation to Generation, edited by Merril Silverstein and Roseann Giarrusso, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013. 368 pp. $65.00 Hardback or Ebook. This ‘Festschrift’ brings together a collection of fifteen chapters that directly or indirectly intersect with Vern Bengtson’s foundational contributions to our understanding of families and aging. Bengtson is most widely known for his role in starting the Longitudinal Study of Generations, a multi-disciplinary investigation of multi-generation families that began in 1971, and for his theoretical contributions including his collaborations with others in developing and refining the family solidarity paradigm and the family solidarity-conflict model. However, these are just a few of his notable contributions in a career that has garnered major awards from the Gerontological Society of America, the American Sociological Association, and the National Council of Family Relations and o