SOC-12 Lecture Notes - Lecture 27: Menopause, Dementia, Midlife Crisis
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May include first time parents as well as great-grandparents. Includes launching of children and new duties caring for aging parents. For some, strain leads to midlife crisis . Both of these areas are in transition at this time. Women"s relationship with family often different than men"s. More intimately associated with nurturing and childbearing tasks. Most women in this age range are at work. Women"s experience of aging is different than men"s. Couples review their marriages and work out new arrangements. May lead to an increase in sex. The relationship with their children changes as the children move from adolescence into young adulthood. Must renegotiate their couple system as a dyad, or pair, rather than as part of a larger family. Couples who have stayed together for the sake of the children . Boomerang children make it on their own. May occur because of adult children"s separation, divorce, job loss, or inability to.
