GERO 14029 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Sildenafil
17 Oct 2018
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Most parent do not experience depression when children leave home. Boomerang children: come back home after moving out. Long term sustained in periods of hostility and discrimination. Women say emotional distance and poor communication. Women less likely to date then men. Increased options from changing sexual attitudes, internet dating, availability of pharmaceuticals (viagra) Credit rating protection/ separate from current debt. Tax disincentives/ loss of military and pension benefits. Become closer in response to major events. Experience conflicts over caring for aging parents. Of people become grandparents by 65. Grandmothers tend to be closer to grandchildren. Most live close to at least 1 grandchild. In families with low socioeconomic status (ses), grandparents are more essential. Formal: proper, prescribed roles, leave parenting to adult children. Fun seeking: informal and playful, source of leisure activity, mutual satisfaction important. Custodial: parents by default, become primary caregivers. Accept some values, lifestyle, etc are different for next generation. Resist urge to fix things for adult child.
