Divided Expectations: The Influences of Biography, Gender, and Class • Joyce Altobelli, University of Minnesota ; Phyllis Moen, Cornell University ; Donna L. Spencer, University of Minnesota

Expectations vs. Actuality in the Levels of Support from Children: Tracing Cohorts in Taiwan from 1965 to 1999 • Albert Hermalin, University of Michigan ; Li-Shou Yang, University of Michigan

Household Context and Subjective Well-Being among the Oldest-Old in China • Feinian Chen, Texas A&M University ; Susan E. Short, Brown University

Social Networks and Family Change in Japan • Ronald R. Rindfuss, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ; Minja K. Choe, East West Center ; Larry Bumpass, University of Wisconsin at Madison ; Noriko Tsuya, Keio University