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This chapter explores how adult children of Korean immigrants work to be present for their aging parents, with particular emphasis on the interrelationships among ethnicity, culture, and gender that shape expectations, attitudes, and practices concerning care giving. It considers how immigrant children become more aware of changes and losses happening in their parents' lives, including retirement from work, selling businesses, marital difficulties, and death of close friends and family members. It shows that adult daughters, both near and far, are more acutely aware of and responsive to changes happening in their parents' lives, and that they maintain close ties with their immigrant parents even as they are cognizant of and empathetic to changes their parents experience as they age. This chapter also examines the negotiations that take place between spouses and among siblings in providing financial and other types of support to aging parents.

Lately, the number of advanced age women seeking reproductive assistance has risen. While still not a mainstream activity, postmenopausal IVF has garnered attention because of sensationalized cases in the media. Ethicists have addressed this issue from a variety of perspectives, in some cases supporting older women’s rights to access reproductive services, such as egg donation and IVF, and, in other cases, citing concerns for the health and welfare of both older women and their offspring in order to justify preventing these women from accessing ARTs. This chapter considers, from a feminist perspective, the ethical propriety of aged parenting through the use of ARTs and more specifically fertility preservation (FP) techniques. These new technologies allow women to preserve their reproductive capacity so that they may later produce biologically related offspring. The chapter considers the future implications of aged parenting for women and presses the question of whether FP constitutes a “feminist” technology.

This chapter focuses on the intergenerational costs and benefits of linked lives, and especially how adult children of aging Korean immigrants find meaning through caring across lifetimes, while functioning at maximum capacity. It considers the model minority image within the context of the social, cultural, political, and familial pressures that come with the responsibility to care for immigrant parents. It also examines how immigrant children find meaning in care work based on their parents' histories and sacrifices and shows that they were able to adapt and learn how to be flexible and balance caring for themselves and others as their aging parents grow more reliant on others. Furthermore, it explores how the role of Korean Americans as an intergenerational bridge could be extended to supporting a social reform agenda focused on aging and health care. The chapter concludes with a discussion of the policy implications and the importance of community and support in the face of the cultural, political, and structural challenges facing older Korean immigrants and their adult children.

This chapter focuses on the methods and principles used by the officialsss for evaluating the applications for Fonds d'urgence sociale or Social Emergency Fund (Fus). The fund was set up by French Prime Minister Lionel Jospin in January 1998 as a political response to the growing protests by the unemployed and the adverse public opinion generated by the media focus on it. The aim of this emergency fund was to address the most difficult situations that could not be resolved through social security. A series of interviews and the analysis of a sample of applications for the grant aid to evaluate the efficacy of the applicants' arguments and the rhetorical choices made by them in their attempt to move the officials are also present. Especially factors such as composition of the family of the applicants and concern for children or for aging parents also influenced the evaluation process of the applications.