ABSTRACT
“Caring and being cared for” as a universal issue has received considerable attention recently in the social scientific, moral education, and feminist literature. Noddings (1989), recently cited by Gordon (1991) as an influential “modern moralist,” expounded on a relational ethic of caring that requires both the “one caring” and the “cared for.” This chapter considers the “Caring and being cared for” issue in a life-stage developmental context, focusing on the last stage of life and on the implications for the development of mutuality of caring between two generations of parents.
