FRHD 3040 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Life Review

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Family Relations and Human Development
• Course: FRHD 3040
• Professor: Robyn Pitman

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Study tip: lecture was directly based on the readings, so you can study both the lecture and the reading. Week 12: older parents and grandparents (heath chapter 10) If interpret as positive: incorporate a sense of integrity. If look back with regrets: develop sense of despair. These two outcomes are linked to whether adult children have turned out as parents have hoped they would. Discuss what a social status transition is and the normative and non-normative transitions that adult children experience: social status transitions: changes in individuals life that modify that person"s social role, normative transitions: Start own family and have children: non-normative transitions: Loosing a job: discuss how normative transitions positively influence parent child relationships. Discuss the two factors related to positive impacts. Contributes to increased intergenerational contact and closeness. Feel they cannot carry on their own lives until children have made these important transitions.