HD FS 315Y Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Disposable And Discretionary Income, Apache Hadoop
4 Oct 2016
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1) more discretionary income: earnings at peak, expense decline. 2) more discretionary time: job-related flexibility, more vacation time, loss of child-centered activities. 3) relationships with children improve: shift from monitoring/admonishing to keeping in touch/offering advice . 4) more equity in marital relationships: less traditional division of labor and decision-making. 1) empty nest syndrome: more common for women, more common for women who devoted most of their time to motherhood. 2) children may fail to launch : 40% of young adult children will return to live at home, men more likely to move back home after a divorce or long-term relationship break up, open-ended stays most stressful. Unemployment: loss of privacy and need to provide care behind most dissatisfaction. 3) caregiving (grandparents: stressful, falls disproportionately on women. Most common finding before 2000: conclusions drawn from cross-sectional studies, marital satisfaction increased with middle age. What is good about middle age outweighs what is bad about.
