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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Based on a study of 19th and early 20th-century New Jersey cases, Hartog examines the complicated interplay of love, duty, gendered expectations, promises, work, and inheritance as society changed while human needs remained relatively similar. In order to avoid the King Lear problem, older people tried to keep young people near them and taking care of them, often by making promises of what those young people would get after the older people died. Sometimes those promises weren’t carried out; sometimes they were, and other excluded family members sought to invalidate them as the products of undue influence. Courts struggled with these messy situations, using concepts of testators’ freedom to devise property regardless of whether the allocation was fair; ideas of contract and exceptions to the requirement that land be transferred only in writing when a young person had sufficiently disrupted his (almost, but not always, his) life in order to do an older person’s wishes; expectations about what it meant to be in a family (especially for women, this meant that care given wasn’t supposed to be remunerated, so they were often disappointed if the will didn’t bear out past promises of reward); and, over time, changing understandings of what kind of care was natural within a family, as nursing in particular moved towards the market. The stories are complicated, and Hartog shows that they always were, even as Social Security and other changes have altered the way that older people secure care and provide for their children (now increasingly by investing in their education rather than leaving them property at death). ( ) sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
We all hope that we will be cared for as we age. But the details of that care, for caretaker and recipient alike, raise some of life's most vexing questions. From the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century, as an explosive economy and shifting social opportunities drew the young away from home, the elderly used promises of inheritance to keep children at their side. Hendrik Hartog tells the riveting, heartbreaking stories of how families fought over the work of care and its compensation.Someday All This Will Be Yours narrates the legal and emotional strategies mobilized by older people, and explores the ambivalences of family members as they struggled with expectations of love and duty. Court cases offer an extraordinary glimpse of the mundane, painful, and intimate predicaments of family life. They reveal what it meant to be old without the pensions, Social Security, and nursing homes that now do much of the work of serving the elderly. From demented grandparents to fickle fathers, from litigious sons to grateful daughters, Hartog guides us into a world of disputed promises and broken hearts, and helps us feel the terrible tangle of love and commitments and money.From one of the bedrocks of the human condition-the tension between the infirmities of the elderly and the longings of the young-emerges a pioneering work of exploration into the darker recesses of family life. Ultimately, Hartog forces us to reflect on what we owe and are owed as members of a family. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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