Abstract
Farm households in Finland and Sweden are an exception to what appears to be a general rule in industrial societies. The general rule is that households containing married couples and parents more often include wives' parents than husbands' parents. This has been found to be true in the U. S., in London, and in Finland and Sweden 1). Finnish and Swedish farmers, on the other hand, more often share the household with husband's parents rather than wife's parents. This is to be expected because of the custom of transmission of farms to sons in these two countries. The custom is for a son to take over the farm, with the understanding that he will provide for the parents in their old age2). This paper reports an investigation of two questions about Finnish farm households in which older parents and married couples live. These questions are:
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