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List of contents
1. Living with the Family in Australian Cities Edgar Liu and Hazel Easthope 2. Demographic Characteristics of Multigenerational Households in Australia, with Special Reference to Metropolitan Sydney and Brisbane Ian Burnley 3. The Drivers of Multigenerational Households in Australia Hazel Easthope 4. Multigenerational Households: Economic Considerations Stephen Whelan 5. Living with the Extended Family: Experiences and Outcomes of Living in Multigenerational Households Edgar Liu 6. Housework, Intergenerational Dependency and Challenges to Traditional Gender Roles Lyn Craig and Abigail Powell 7. Families and Ageing: Intergenerational Relations in Health and Care Negotiations Rodrigo Mariño, Victor Minichiello and Michael I. MacEntee 8. Identity, Sexuality and Stigma in Multigenerational Households: Perspectives from LGBT Households Members Bianca Fileborn, Tiffany Jones and Victor Minichiello 9. Housing Design for Multigenerational Living Bruce Judd 10. The Environmental Implications of Multigenerational Living: Are Larger Households also Greener Households? Natascha Klocker, Chris Gibson and Erin Borger 11. Recognising Multigenerational Households Hazel Easthope and Edgar Liu
About the author
Edgar Liu is a Research Fellow at the City Futures Research Centre, Faculty of Built Environment, UNSW Australia (University of New South Wales).
Hazel Easthope is an Australian Research Council Future Fellow and Senior Research Fellow at City Futures Research Centre, Faculty of Built Environment, UNSW Australia.
Summary
This book sheds fresh light on a range of structural and social drivers that have led multigenerational families to cohabit and the ways in which families negotiate the dynamic interactions amongst these drivers in their everyday lives.
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"Although this book is focussed on Australia the content should be of interest to readers around the world. Multigenerational Family Living is a world-wide phenomenon- normal in some countries but a more recent development in some western societies (if you ignore housing history) where housing shortages have forced families to house multiple generations. The book explores those housing market contexts but it also rightly focusses on the lived reality of multigenerational living and the impact this has on the nature of families. The editors have brought the 11 chapters together into an important volume which provides real insights into worlds which many researchers now have only a modest understanding." – Peter Williams, Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge, UK.
