Relations with Parents: Questions and Results

The book offers essential information on relations between adults and their
parents. How well do the generations get along with one another? What impact
does education, finances, age, gender, migration and region have on
intergenerational relationships? The study examines both current relationships
with living parents and past ties to mothers and fathers who have passed away.
The empirical basis is SwissGen, a representative survey of intergen-
erational relations in Switzerland. The book forms a tandem with the analysis
volume, which examines central generational issues in depth ("Generations
between Conflict and Cohesion"). The analysis volume offers key findings,
whereas the volume at hand documents all questions and answers of the survey.
This includes the numbers on which the fig- ures in the analysis volume are
based. Moreover, the data volume is a general reference book for all SwissGen
results and provides basic information on the research project.