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Demographic Change and the Social Contract of Informal Support Within the Family

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Gierveld, J.d.J. (2007). Demographic Change and the Social Contract of Informal Support Within the Family. In: Ages, Generations and the Social Contract. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-5973-5_8

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