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... Older personsand in particular older womenrely heavily on their children, not only for informal care and practical support, but also for confiding and reassurance (Antonucci & Akiyama, 1987;Van der Pas, Van Tilburg, & Knipscheer, 2007). The parents of the baby boom generation were characterized by their high fertility, but subsequent cohorts had considerably fewer children (Cherlin, 2010;Devolder, Gonz alez, & Gavino, 2002;Kirmeyer & Hamilton, 2011). This gives rise to concerns about the welfare of new cohorts of older people (e.g. ...