Exam 16: Aging and Multigenerational Families

The text discusses __________, which is defined as "a web of continually shifting linkages that provide the potential for activating and intensifying close kin relationships."

Older women are significantly more likely than older men to live with persons other than their spouse.

Later life couples who hold more __________ attitudes toward gender roles report significantly higher levels of marital happiness.

The text points out that elder caregiving can be physically, financially, and emotionally costly.

Up to 40 percent of eldercare is provided by the elderly care receiver's spouse.

The text lists several qualities and attitudes that predict good adjustment for retiring couples. Which of the following is NOT one of these?

Sociologists Merril Silverstein and Vern L. Bengston developed six indicators of relationship solidarity, or connection, between older parents and adult children. Which of the following is NOT one of these?

Social scientists have noted a caregiving __________ through which the process of eldercare proceeds.

About ____ of unpaid caregivers are male.

The __________ is defined as a web of shifting linkages that provide the potential for activating and intensifying close kin relationships.

The family's "__________" face provides individuals with intimacy, emotional support, and love.

Older people who are not biologically related to the "grandchildren" but assume a grandparent-like role are called ______.

The family's "__________" face produces goods and services by educating children and caring for the ill and elderly.

Most older married couples place intimacy as central to their lives and describe their unions as happy.

According to family sociologist and demographer Andrew Cherlin, the family's "__________ face" provides individuals with intimacy, emotional support, and love.

Today's parents can find themselves in the __________; paying for a child's college tuition, worrying about the financial burden of eldercare for aging parents, while trying to save for their own retirement.

Grandparents usually have the same kind of relationship with all of their grandchildren.

Research shows that daughters are more likely than sons to have close relationships with their parents, especially with their mothers.

Silverstein and Bengston concluded that the majority of intergenerational relationships between adult children and parents were neither tight-knit nor distant, but

Research suggests that a daughter's being divorced decreases her help to her parents.