Intergenerational Solidarity, Welfare and Human Ecology
Tenth Plenary Session, 29 April-3 May 2004
Acta 10, ed. M.A. Glendon
Vatican City, 2004
pp. LXIV-440
ISBN 88-86726-16-3
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FIRST SESSION – State of the Questions
Solidaridad Intergeneracional, Bienestar y Ecología Humana en la Doctrina Social de la Iglesia (PDF)
A.M. Rouco Varela
Comment:
Solidarietà intergenerazionale, welfare e ecologia umana nel pensiero sociale cattolico (PDF)
O. Fumagalli Carulli
La donne démographique: évolution des structures par âges dans les populations humaines (PDF)
J. Vallin
Comments:
Commentaire sur “La donne démographique”, de Jacques Vallin (PDF)
M. Schooyans
Commentaire sur “La donne démographique” (PDF)
E. Malinvaud
The Impact of Replacement Migration on Intergenerational Solidarity in the Twenty-First Century (PDF)
J. Zubrzycki
Economic, Political and Cultural Consequences of Changes in Generational Relations (PDF)
F. Fukuyama
Comment:
Comments to: Francis Fukuyama, ‘Economic, Political and Cultural Consequences of Changes in Generational Relations’ (PDF)
J.J. Llach
Family Concerns and Inter-Generational Solidarity (PDF)
M.S. Archer
Comment:
Comments on ‘Family Concerns and Inter-Generational Solidarity’ (PDF)
M. Sánchez Sorondo
SECOND SESSION – Social Policy, Family Policy, and Intergenerational Relations
Social Policy, Family Policy and Intergenerational Solidarity: A New Design (PDF)
P.P. Donati
Comment:
Comments on Professor Donati’s Paper (PDF)
H. Suchocka
Intergenerational Solidarity and the Crisis of the Welfare State: Pensions and Health Care (PDF)
H. Tietmeyer
Comment:
Commentaire à la suite de la communication du Prof. Tietmeyer: “Intergenerational Solidarity and the Crisis of the Welfare State: Pensions, Social Security and Health Care” (PDF)
L. Sabourin
THIRD SESSION – Globalization, Intergenerational Solidarity and Human Ecology in Developed and Developing Countries
Intergenerational Well-Being (PDF)
P. Dasgupta
Comment:
How to Show Intergenerational Solidarity with Respect to the Physical Environment (PDF)
E. Malinvaud
Speaking for Children and for the Future (PDF)
K. Arrow
Comment:
Children and the Future: A Few Remarks on Intergenerational Solidarity (PDF)
H. Zacher
FOURTH SESSION – The Mediating Structures of Civil Society and Intergenerational Solidarity
Welfare and Devolution to Local Governments or Mediating Institutions (PDF)
J.T. Raga
Comment:
Comment on José Raga’s: ‘Welfare and Devolution to Local Government or Mediating Institutions’ (PDF)
P. Morandé
The Subjectivity of Society (PDF)
R.J. Neuhaus
Comment:
La soggettività della società e la “soggettività morale” (PDF)
V. Possenti
FIFTH SESSION – Conclusions – General Discussion
Conclusions on: ‘Intergenerational Solidarity, Welfare and Human Ecology’ (PDF)
M.A. Glendon
Conclusioni su “Solidarietà intergenerazionale, welfare ed ecologia umana” (PDF)
M.A. Glendon
Diskussionsdokument: „Intergenerationelle Solidarität, Wohlfahrt und Humanökologie“ (PDF)
M.A. Glendon
Final Report (PDF)
M.A. Glendon
Tenth Anniversary of the Academy
Welcome and Presentation of the Academy (PDF)
M.A. Glendon
Commemoration de l’Académie (PDF)
E. Malinvaud
Report on the Intergenerational Solidarity Project (PDF)
M.A. Glendon
Report on Democracy (PDF)
H. Zacher
Report on ‘Work & Human Fulfillment’ (PDF)
M. Archer
Rapport sur quatre rencontres sur la mondialisation (PDF)
L. Sabourin
Comments on the Ten Years of the PASS by the President of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (PDF)
S. Richardson
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As we look back on the latter part of the twentieth century, we can see that economic transitions and demographic earthquakes have shaken all of the four pillars upon which most individuals rely for support, security and social standing – the family, market work, governmental assistance, and the broad array of associations that are known collectively in Catholic social thought as the mediating structures of civil society. Dramatic changes in birth rates, longevity, marriage behavior, and women’s roles, geographic mobility (and the list could go on), have had profound effects on the ‘load-bearing capacity’ of each of these pillars. These changes have affected affluent and developing nations alike, in differing ways, and to varying degrees. They have jeopardized the wellbeing of the very young, the frail elderly, and other dependents – both in welfare states and in countries where government’s role in providing social services is minimal or non-existent. No society has been unaffected, and no society has yet fully faced up to the unprecedented challenges posed by these changes – in a world where dependency remains a stubborn fact of human existence.
As is apparent from the reference to ‘human ecology’ in the conference title, our aim this week is to move well beyond standard debates over the ‘welfare crisis’. For changes in family behavior, and – what is equally important – changes in ideas about dependency and family life have far-reaching implications for the human prospect – for the world’s democratic experiments, for the health of economies, and for the future of our social and natural environments.
Mary Ann Glendon
