FRHD 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Midlife Crisis, Dementia, Menopause
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Diverse: may include irst ime parents as well as grandparents. Includes launching of children and new duies caring for aging parents. Both of these areas are in transiion at this ime. Women"s relaionship with family is oten diferent than men"s: more inimately associated with nurturing and childrearing tasks. Most women in this age range are at work. Women"s experiences of aging is diferent than men"s o. Includes the experience of menopause: women considered old before men o. Couples review their marriages and work out new arrangements. May lead to an increase in sex: more ime, more freedom, more privacy, no fear of pregnancy. The relaionship with their children changes as they children move from adolescence into young adulthood: have to learn boundaries and to respect children in a new way. Now that the pair is alone: must renegoiate their couple system as a dyad, or pair, rather than as part of a larger family.