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The Parental Experience in Mid-Life. Carol D. Ryff and Marsha M. Seltzer, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996.

Abstract:

Compared to five other industrialized countries, the U.S. is least in favor of government intervention to improve the living standards of the old, the sick, and the unemployed. America especially lags behind Great Britain is support for government spending on health, education, unemployment, and retirement benefits.