SOC 3371 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Substance Abuse

• School: University of Houston
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 3371
• Professor: Luis Salinas

Document Summary

Majority of help that the older population and their adult children receive comes from one another: most of the young people receive help from their aging parents, most aging parents are relatively healthy and economically independent. Low-income parents encourage their children to live with grandparents. Altruism: caring about others and wanting to make their lives easier and better, reflects strong social norms, according to american law, it is a crime to grossly mistreat one"s children. Individuals consider the benefits they would receive and the costs they would incur when assisting family members. Generalized exchange: assisting a family member with the expectation that someone in the family system will reciprocate at a later time: creates a generalized obligation. Mutual assistance between older parents and their adult children represents a mixture of altruism and exchange. In 2011, grandparents were the primary source of child care for 21 percent of preschool-aged children whose mothers worked outside the home.