Middle Generation Research Articles

Artur Kozak’s Juriscentrist Concept of Law: a Central European Innovation in Legal Theory

Artur Kozak (1960–2009) was one of the most original and innovative philosophers of law to emerge from the so-called ‘middle generation’ of Polish post-War jurisprudence. Kozak’s principal achievement was to break away from the analytical paradigm of legal theory, dominant in the in Poland at the time, and engage legal theory in a fruitful dialogue with contemporary sociology and philosophy, including such currents as social constructionism or postmodernism. To name his original theoretical project, Kozak coined a new term – ‘juriscentrism’ (juryscentryzm), consciously evoking Richard Rorty’s concept of ethnocentrism. Juriscentrist legal theory was mainly focused on providing legitimacy for the newly gained power of the legal community in a post-socialist society, but its theoretical resonance is universal. Kozak’s premature death made it impossible to complete the theoretical project of juriscentrism, nonetheless he managed to elaborate its main tenets, including the concept of juristic discretional power and a juriscentrist concept of law. Kozak’s legacy in contemporary Polish legal theory is particularly visible in Wrocław, where not only the post-analytical paradigm in Poland is the strongest, but also the first Polish school of critical legal theory has recently emerged.

The geolect of Plungė in terms of regressive assimilation of vowels I, U

Based on dialectometric methods, the article discusses the geolect of Plungė in terms of regressive assimilation of vowels i, u. The study material consists of about 9 hours of audio recordings, 57 sentences, recited by nine presenters of younger, middle and older generations. 6 words were chosen in which regressive assimilation of vowels can take place, i. e., the words with vowels i, u in accented, unaccented and shifted accent positions. Quantitative analysis of the material (sentences read by the presenters) was performed with the tools of the computer program Gabmap. Pseudo maps of networks, reference points, cluster analysis, as well as differential dialectal features were analyzed. The analysis performed using dialectometry methods shows that differences in limb reduction, word stem, consonant softening become apparent, but in many cases regressive assimilation of vowels i, u becomes the main variable feature. The operation/inaction of the regressive assimilation of vowels i, u is greatly influenced by accent. When vowels are accented, presenters of all generations pronounce them without regressive vowel assimilation. When the vowel i is unaccented, it is assimilated, and the vowel u is spelled narrowly by only a third of the presenters. Dual behavior exists in cases where vowels receive a shifted accent. The pronunciation of both vowels is approximate. Maintaining the main distinguishing feature of the residents of Plungė from the dialect of the residents of Telšiai, although inconsistent, would allow predicting that the linguistic dialect peculiarity of this area could compete with the language code of Telšiai – based on the Samogitian regiolect – or whether the regiolect itself would be / become dual-core (more detailed research based on a multi-faceted research model is needed to confirm this statement). The effect of regressive assimilation in the Plungė dialect, in the geolectic zone in general, can be both a proof of resemblance to the northern Samogitian Telšiai residents and a sign of a decrease in the importance of assimilation as a distinctive feature of the dialects.

Enhancement of waste heat recovery from vertical chimney via thermoelectric generators by heat spreader

This paper presents three-dimensional study on the enhancement of waste heat recovery from vertical chimney via thermoelectric generators (TEG) by using heat spreader. The physical model composes of aligned TEGs mounted on the chimney wall where each TEG is cooled at its cold side by rectangular finned heat sink. The spreaders are installed on the generators’ cold sides between the generators and the heat sinks’ bases. The studied model represents three of the TEGs installed on the chimney wall. Three-dimensional model is presented for the physical model coupling the governing equations of thermal, fluid flow and electrical models and is solved by using ANSYS software. Results indicate that using spreader increases total output generators power by 17% and 42% at spreader length 40 and 140mm, respectively and pitch 140mm. The increase of the TEGs power is about 17% and 21% due to using spreader length of 40 and 80mm, respectively at 80mm pitch. Using heat spreader with maximum length of 140mm, increases the conversion efficiency of the lower, middle generator and upper TEGs by 22.2%, 18.8%, and 19.7%, respectively, while the overall efficiency of the system rises by 20.4%. Using spreader with 140mm reduces the used generators and heat sinks numbers to approximately the half.

How three generations narrate their vicarious family stories: intrafamilial similarities, gender and cross-generational differences

ABSTRACTThis study investigated the memory characteristics of vicarious family stories. Seventy-two families including three generations of women and men from different samples of families were recruited. Results can be described in three main sections: (a) intrafamilial similarities; (b) gender differences; and (c) cross-generational differences. For intrafamilial similarities, members of the same family showed similarities in terms of the volume and number of other-related words. For gender differences, women focused more on social interactions, used more other-related words and subjective perspective terms, and made more identity connections between others and parents than men. When describing parents’ reasons for telling family stories, women were also less likely to report development and teaching reasons and more likely to report emotional reasons compared to men. For cross-generational differences, the oldest generation’s stories were less coherent than the youngest and middle generations’, and less voluminous than the middle generation’s. Additionally, the youngest generation reported entertainment reasons more often than the oldest generation. Emotional reasons were more common for the middle generation than for the youngest and oldest generations. These findings contribute to the growing area of research on family narratives by examining the elements of narrative identity in family stories across three generations.

John Berryman’s Last Prayers

Abstract This article examines John Berryman’s last two poetry collections, Love & Fame (1970) and Delusions, etc. (1972) as the poetic articulations of Berryman’s intense scholarly engagement with philosophical and theological discourse. In eschewing confessional readings of his work, the article rehabilitates the term ‘confession’ as Berryman understood it: not as part of recurrent and reductive analyses of the Middle Generation but, rather, as a doctrinal node within Berryman’s theological conceptions of selfhood in relation to God and the role of prayer. In addition, this article connects Berryman's late work to theological frameworks beyond Christianity, principally to the work of S�ren Kierkegaard as well as to aspects of Jewish faith, both of which were enduring interests for Berryman.

Intergenerational Support of Older Adults by the ‘Mature’ Sandwich Generation: The Relevance of National Policy Regimes

Abstract In this article we examine the association between national welfare regime and the propensity of middle–aged and older individuals with adult children of their own to provide social support to aged parents. Using data from mature adults (50+) in 26 European countries, we examine whether older and younger generations compete for the time resources of the middle “sandwiched” generation, and whether national policy context shapes this competition. Contrary to expectations, we found that sandwich generation members were less likely to provide support to their parents in Conservative–Mediterranean and East European regimes, but more likely to do so in universalistic Social–Democratic regimes. This evidence supports the hypothesis that well–developed welfare states “crowd–in” family support to older individuals. Middle generation members who provided social support to their adult children tended to provide to their older parents as well. This was particularly true in the two regimes where resources and public benefits tend to be more generous and may be interpreted as state benefits that reduce intergenerational competition. Findings are discussed in terms of the capacity of state policies to shape the allocation of family resources to older adults where extended family lineages have become the norm.

The origins and major trends in development of jazz piano stylistics

The origins and major trends in development of jazz piano stylistics

Grandparents’ Relationship to Grandchildren in the Transition to Adulthood

This study investigates grandparent–grandchild relations in emerging adulthood, focusing on grandchildren’s transition to residential independence and the role of parents as mediators. Using three waves of the German Ageing Survey (DEAS), we estimate fixed effects models to assess changes in the frequency of contact and emotional closeness of 349 grandparents with 494 grandchildren aged 16 to 30 years. Grandparent–grandchild contact decreases during the transition to adulthood due to the middle generation’s declining ability to provide opportunities for intergenerational interaction as well as grandchildren’s new responsibilities after leaving the parental home. Grandparent–grandchild closeness does not change systematically in emerging adulthood, but is characterized by a high degree of temporal stability and independence of grandparent–parent contact frequency. Thus, even if contact decreases during the transition to adulthood, a continuously close emotional bond allows grandparents and grandchildren to (re)activate the support potential inherent to their relationship in times of need.

Present day school readers in rapport with the dramatic works of a once-banned Albanian author

The process of reading, rereading, scrutinizing, re-scrutinizing and appraising an author’s work is not fi nite; moreover it is very dynamic and full of suprises. No doubt that the appraisal and re-appraisal is too complex, including cultural, literary, gender and genre components. This becomes more obvious when referring to an author whose works had been locked up in library stacks during the whole 45 years of totalitarian rule in Albania, and whose appraisal process cannot help facing up to the critical thinking led by biased politicization. In this study the appraisal of the works of one of the most outstanding Albanian writers of the 30s of the twentieth century, Etëhem Haxhiademi, will be done by presenting them in rapport with the present-day school, pre-university and university level readers. This re-appraisal is conducted with a cold logic, devoid of the vindictive political principles which brought the distorted evaluation of the authors’ works, as it happened for many other au-thors as well, and is striving to place the writer into the system of the genuine literary values. Once the reader’s inquisitiveness has been satisfi ed, even after reading a less-known or, moreover, an oblivious or banned literary work, he/she begins reading and rereading it, looking closely into it, essaying to fi nd a proper place for this work in the general system of the national, inter-balkanic and international literary values.E. Haxhiademi’s literary work was known by an older generations of readers whose es-thetic satisfaction it brought forth was confi ned in their consciousness: it was unknown or partly known, not by direct reading but by several interpretations of others, by a middle generation of readers who displayed a certain artistic uncertainty and indifference. However, nowadays it is intently being studied although in excessively fragmentary ways and in many cases even unsuitable ones, by the younger generation of readers who should have a more motivated curiosity for divulging its real values.In the history of the Albanian literature, as well as in the other East European Countries, the authors’ biographies and especially their political aspects, were used as selective criteria to appraise authors and their works, instead of being pure cognitive and studying means. This study intends to reveal the present-day school readers’ affi rmative attitudes or even the non-affi rmative ones, regarding Haxhiademi’s literary works, in the process of re-dimen-sioning the author’s values and those of his literary works.

From Historic Inventory to Contemporary Display: The Collections of the Zachęta — National Gallery of Art in Warsaw

The history of the post-war collection of the Zacheta — National Gallery of Art in Warsawis one of meanders of Polish cultural policy. Today gallery’s function is primarily as a place of exhibition (Kunsthalle). The collection of Polish art that was amassed here prior to the II World War now constitutes a substantial element in the inventories of the National Museum in Warsaw. However, one of the statutory requirements of Zacheta nonetheless remains “the collection, inventory and storage of contemporary works of art”. Zacheta’s current collection numbers 3598 works (Annual Report 2017). The works document a number of important phenomena in Polish art from the late 1940s until today, including different types of geometric abstraction, the metaphorical-expressive movement (a Polish version of surrealist tendencies), the new figurative movement, the Polish Colourist aesthetics, and the most recent tendencies, such as the socalled “critical art” of the 1990–2000s. In 1949 the Central Office for Art Exhibitions was founded and located in the Zacheta building. The collection accumulated during the Central Office for Art Exhibitions period of existence (until 1992) is not one that had a well-defined profile. Works were bought from exhibitions,competitions and sometimes simply as a form of aid to artists. The funds for purchase came from the Ministry of Culture and Art: from the Fund for the Development of the Visual Arts, or through the national ordering system of the Art Department in the Ministry. However, during the 1970s, works began to be acquired for the purposes of exhibitions and education. The most recent acquisitions are primarily of works by Polish contemporary artists exhibited at the gallery and of works co-produced by the Zacheta, whether inhouse or elsewhere (e.g. for the Polish Pavilion at the Venice Biennale). During the 1990–2000s the Zacheta has succeeded in putting together a collection of works by middle generation and young generation of Polish artists (such as, internationally renowned Pawel Athamer, Miroslaw Balka, Katarzyna Kozyra, Zbigniew Libera and Artur Żmijewski). Collection building is a significant part of the gallery’s contemporary policy. This is made possible by funds offered by sponsors (such as the ING Polish Art Foundation), funds obtained through the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage programme Collections — Regional Collections of Contemporary Art, and also funds generated by Zacheta specially for the purpose or donations of works by artists (crowdfunding). Works from the collection are also included in the Zacheta’s exhibition and educational programme. The focus of the paper is on the transition from the Zacheta’s historical inventories to the issues of collection’s contemporary forms of display.

AXIOLOGICAL CONTENT OF INTRA-FAMILY CONVERSATIONS ON POLITICAL ISSUES

The article examines intra - family conversations about politics recorded in 2018-2019. The communicants with whose permission the recordings were made are related residents of Yekaterinburg who openly express their civil position. They are pensioners (in the recent past, a worker, an employee and an engineer) and representatives of the middle generation (a worker, a school teacher, a University teacher). The object of analysis is the axiological content of fragments of dialogic and polylogic interaction on concrete themes. The communication partners focus on the facts and events of domestic and foreign policy. A balanced and at the same time not indifferent attitude to the political reality allows one to conclude that politics becomes an organic component of the axiology of everyday life. In accordance with the purpose of the given research, aimed at identifying and generalizing axiological benchmarks determining the attitude of the Russian citizens to politics, the authors have collected nominations of the basic values, evaluative words and statements, and I-statements, which translate axiological attitudes and judgments about politics, for a special linguo - axiological analysis. It has been established that a rational and analytical approach to the Soviet past and the post-Soviet present, and a realistic attitude to legislative initiatives are combined with mentally pre - set emotional reactions and hyperbolization of the consequences of foreign policy events. The analysis highlights the guiding values: man, family, children, work; the main values that form the basis of socially oriented policy (economic, energetic, demographic): justice, quality of life, labor solidarity, civil activity; political values proper: civil duty, stability, independence, defense capability, advanced development of the country, a multipolar world. The revealed tendency to strengthen personalism does not suppress the sense of civil community.

Исследователь биогеосистем от палеозоя до современности: памяти палеонтолога и геоэколога профессора М. Г. Миниха (1942–2019)

This paper presents a brief biography of the Professor Maxim G. Minich, a Soviet and Russian specialist in fossil fish and stratigraphy of the Permian and Triassic of the Russian Plate and the Cis-Uralian peripheral depression. He was a brilliant representative of the middle generation of the Saratov school of vertebrate researchers, the head of the Department of Biostratigraphy and Paleontology at the Scientific Research Geological Institute of Saratov State University and latterly its Director. He was an honorary member of the All-Russian Paleontological Society. A bibliography of Professor Minikh’s principal publications is given comprising 107 titles.

OLD BELIEVERS OF ROMANIA IN THE 21ST CENTURY: NEW CHALLENGES TO OLD TRADITIONS

Russian Old believes – Lipovans – have always been part of the Russian world, the guardians of the old Orthodox faith and Russian culture. For a long time, they managed to maintain a religious and cultural distance from the rest of the Romania’s population and to restrain the pace of inevitable assimilation. Over the past thirty years, cultural globalisation has become the new tremendous threat. The article, written on the materials of the expeditions to the Romanian Lipovans conducted in 2009–2019, shows how radically the life of the Lipovans changed after the revolution of 1989, and especially after Romania had joined the European Union. Migration of able-bodied Lipovans abroad changes their way of life, affects the level of religiosity, contributes to the assimilation of European values and objectively leads to the undermining of the foundations of the Оld believers’ Church. Children, young people and the most of the middle generation, have been included in the Romanian-European information space, and this group sees complete loss of the Russian language. At the same time, the Lipovans of the older generation and other part of the middle generation are trying to stay within the traditional way of life and to keep the Russian language in communication. This situation leads to the loss of continuity and the termination of the reproduction of Russian culture in the Lipovan’s diaspora, to the rejection of the identity.

A Review on Social Trust Levels of Theology Faculty Students

Son dönemlerde sosyal sermaye yazınında önemli bir yer işgal eden güven kavramı, toplumsal ilişkiler ve toplumsal bütünlükte önemli bir unsur olarak kabul görmektedir. Bireylerin sosyal güven düzeyleri bir bakıma toplumda bulunan güven düzeyini yansıtan bir özelliğe sahiptir. Bireylerin birbirlerini ne kadar güvenilir buldukları, insanların yaptıkları iyilikte samimi olup olmadıkları, bireylerin toplumsal aidiyet duygusu düzeyi gibi faktörler, bireylerin sosyal güven düzeyini belirlemeye yardımcı olur. Bu gibi sorular ile sosyal güven düzeyi belirlenmeye çalışılırken toplumun geleceği sayılan ve toplumsal anlamda orta kuşak sayılan genç bireyler üzerine araştırma yapılması tercih edilmiştir. Araştırma verileri, amaçlı örneklem yoluyla seçilen Ankara, Atatürk, Dicle ve Dokuz Eylül İlahiyat Fakültelerinde birinci ve son sınıfta okuyan toplam 850 öğrenciye uygulanan anket sonuçlarına dayanmaktadır. Araştırmanın bulgularına göre İlahiyat Fakültesi öğrencilerinin sosyal güven düzeyi Türkiye ortalamasının üzerinde olmasına rağmen bu düzeyin bir toplumda istenilen sosyal güven düzeyinden daha aşağı bir seviyede olduğu tespit edilmiştir.

Щодо визначення концепції побудови системи озброєння для потреб Збройних Сил України

Створення основних зразків озброєння повинно відбуватися у рамках концепції побудови системи озброєння для потреб Збройних Сил України, яка враховує економічні, воєнно-політичні та природно-географічні умови України.На сьогодні вона може бути сформульована таким чином: «Система озброєння ЗС України повинна бути орієнтована на захист території держави від економічно значно переважаючого противника». На жаль, реалізація концепції в такому формулюванні потребує відмови від завищених амбіцій, що є дуже важким не тільки для старшого, але і для великої частини середнього покоління. Однак, це дозволить перейти від створення одиничних високовартісних зразків до масового виробництва більш дешевих зразків.Основними її принципами повинні стати:1. Асиметричний підхід до визначення пріоритетів розвитку ОВТ шляхом створення не аналогів, а зразків, що здатні їм протидіяти або унеможливлювати їх функціонування.2. Максимальне застосування у зразках ОВТ цивільних комплектуючих.3. Проведення операцій технічного обслуговування та ремонту постачальниками комплектуючих та перенесення ремонтного фонду на їх базу (відмова від складування запасних частин).4. Диверсифікація постачальників комплектуючих за умови повної поблочної уніфікації.5. Принцип гарантованого забезпечення 100% штатної потреби.Розробка нових зразків озброєння у рамках запропонованої концепції дозволить вирішити, наприклад, проблему підвищення балістичного захисту легко- та важкоброньованої техніки.Показано, що проблема підвищення рівня балістичного захисту бойових броньованих машин виникає через відсутність концептуального підходу до їх бойового застосування, котрий має базуватися на розумінні асиметричності війни з існуючим противником.Зазначено, що усі елементи бойової машини повинні функціонувати як система захисту особового складу (екіпажу) і озброєння в залежності від призначення зразка. Водночас, існуючий підхід має за мету забезпечити збереження усіх елементів зразка шляхом розташування їх в заброньовому просторі, що збільшує його об’єм і не дає змоги збільшити його товщину, через значне зростання маси. Це, у свою чергу, призводить до необхідності застосування легкосплавних, керамічних броньових матеріалів та їх комбінацій незважаючи на те, що їх ціна переважає вартість сталевої броні у десятки разів.

How Can Mini Cinemas in the Kansai Area Embrace Male-to-Female Cross-Dressers and Their Communities Under Urban Renewal and Gentrification?

This article considers how Japanese middle and older generation male-to-female cross-dressers (josōsha) have begun to create social ties with each other by connecting with commercial agencies. In Japan, some such cross-dressers, especially those of middle and older generations, attend mini cinemas. We argue that such cinemas have become places through which the cross-dressers feel a sense of belonging (ibasho). To develop the argument, we examine how current business strategies of the cinemas contribute to this sense of belonging. Furthermore, we explain how the connections these strategies facilitated affect various social and economic aspects of the Shinsekai district in Osaka. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 12 participants. Seven participants were male-to-female cross-dressers who regularly visited the Shinsekai district; four were staff at a cinema company in the same district; and one was the president of a neighborhood association. We also conducted participant observation to better understand the social context and lives of our participants. Our data revealed the following themes. First, as gender roles and expectations of josōsha changed, some cinemas in the Kansai region significantly renovated their spaces to appeal to cross-dressing customers. This included furnishing a changing room with lockers, a shower room, and makeup tables, and the cinemas had accordingly become comfortable ibasho for josōsha. Second, information for cross-dressers was conveyed through the Internet and word-of-mouth. This meant that the cross-dressing community in the area grew covertly. Third, a different type of commercial facility—the Japanese video-box—began performing a similar function to that of the cinemas. We conclude by suggesting that activities taking place in mini cinemas and beyond have led to an underground revitalization of the Shinsekai and Fukuhara districts in Kansai.

Малые индоарийские языки Северной Индии: язык куллуи

The project aims at documenting the Indo-Aryan Kullui language. This unwritten minor language of the Himachali Pahari group is common in Kullu district in Himachal Pradesh (India). The core objective of the project is to describe Kullui through field methods in linguistics. The study includes the collection of sociolinguistic information, grammar description, compi­ling a dictionary, as well as recording texts. The project run by A.S. Krylova, Yu.V. Mazurova, E.A. Renkovskaya, E.M. Shuvannikova (Knyazeva) is carried out under the auspices of the Institute of Linguistics, the Russian Academy of Sciences. 
 During the linguistic expeditions to Himachal Pradesh, the researchers collected insights into the sociolinguistic situation: types of multilingualism, areas of use of the main languages in the region — Kullui, Hindi, English, etc.; studied the language features of different generations. The research shows the dynamics of the linguistic situation: in the older generation, especially, among women, there are cases of monolingual language — knowledge of the local language alone; the middle generation, as a rule, speaks several languages — Hindi, one or several local languages/dialects, some also know English (its Indian version). In addition, some people know Punjabi, Urdu, Nepali to some extent, which is associated with the geographic location and history of Himachal Pradesh. Young people and schoolchildren demonstrate the onset of a language shift: many people know Himachali languages and use them in everyday life; however, the use of minor languages is gradually restricted to communication with older family members. The key communication tool for the younger generation is Hindi, for educated youth — both Hindi and English.
 A detailed description of minor languages is relevant right now, while they still retain their authenticity and used by all generations. It is crucial to document them using new modern technologies (voiced dictionaries, gloss texts with audio and video recordings). Existing as a means of oral communication, Kullui and other minor languages of Himachal Pradesh currently lack standardized writing. The research team has developed a phonological transcription based on the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) for recording oral speech, as well as morphological parsing for grammatical material.

Rapid Assessment of Needs and Services in Long-Term Care

With the growing number of older population, our society raises the need to organise various forms of care. In contemporary society, this is considered to be a long-term care system. Since Slovenia does not yet have a long-term care system based on long-term care legislation, while the demographic trends show a great need for it, it is essential to investigate the needs of older people and the possible responses to their needs. By using the method of rapid assessment of needs and services in the Municipality of Straža, we have identified the nature and extent of long-term distress, and sought effective responses to the needs of older people following the modern guidelines of care and substitutions for institutional care. We have found that the population of the municipality is old, the young population is moving away, and the middle generation commutes daily to work outside the municipality. There is no one available to take care of the older population and this trend will continue in the future. The solutions may be found in the organisation of community assistance within the municipality and in regional integration. When planning new services, however, the trend of lowering the quality of well-being of older people, overcoming the prevailing taboos about the phenomena of old age and strengthening the autonomy and power of older people, their social network and introducing modern information and communication technology should be taken into account in the context of social policy.

Building on an old feature inlangue d’Oïl: interrogatives in Vimeu Picard

ABSTRACTPicard faces challenges in its quest for recognition, in part due to its perceived similarity with French. While scholars recognize that Picard and French phonology, morphology and lexicon differ considerably, some scholars maintain that Picard syntax differs little from French. Suspecting that such assessments are based on superficial comparisons, we test their validity by performing comparative variationist analyses of Picard and French morphosyntactic structures. This article focuses on interrogatives. We compare older and contemporary written data, as well as contemporary oral data, and show that Picard and French use their shared structures differently and that the Picard Yes/No interrogative system is complex but constrained by two linguistic factors: polarity and person. We report very different distributions of SV, inversion and interrogative –tibased on polarity and show that negative markerspointandmieconstrain the choice of interrogative structure. For affirmative interrogatives, we show that the distribution of interrogative structures is strongly constrained by the subject person. A diachronic analysis of text from nine authors from three generations reveals overall stability over time, with some signs of convergence toward French in the middle generation but a reversal to the older patterns in the youngest generation.

Love and Sexuality in Later Life: What Your Grandparents are not Telling You

Abstract In a study of dating in later life, conducted in the Midwest in the United States, in which a sample of people age 60+ were interviewed regarding their dating behaviors and perceived functions of dating at this stage in the life course, preliminary evidence suggests that middle-generation offspring took on the role of gatekeepers of sexual standards of conduct and cohabitation outside marriage. Concomitantly, the older generation displayed modified attitudes about sexuality outside marriage in keeping with the opportunity structures available to them as part of the dating experience. When this paper was published in 1986 there were few studies of later life intimacy and dating, and the focus was on the older daters rather than on extended family or social network implications of dating in later life. Since my study in the mid-1980’s, research has flourished on later life dating and intimacy, but the focus continues to be on the dyad rather than exploring intergenerational family relationships and changes that result from re-coupling in later life. This paper will explore the adult child-older parent relationship in which the older person is dating and posit research questions based on two conceptual areas and one theoretical perspective – stereotyping of older people, transmission of values across generations, and social exchange theory – on which to build future studies of intergenerational relationships. This review of the literature will assist in understanding the middle generation’s response to an older parent’s dating and courtship behavior as well as consider why conflicts about later life dating between adult children and older parents are more likely under certain family conditions. Exploration of the literature on later life dating that has resulted since our 1986 study, coupled with theoretical underpinnings, is intended to help scholars in this area of study conduct research that will be more generalizable and theory-based.