SOC246H1 Chapter 8: Chapter 8
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Chapter 8 family relationships and social support system . older people are firmly embedded in an extensive social support. division of labor within the support network. older people today are more likely to have a living sibling: verticalization: the increase in links (vertical ties) between preceding and subsequent generations. bean pole family structure: the family looks like a bean pole because of an increase in the numbers of generations in a family alive at the same time grandparents, parents, children, grandchildren, great-children. Marital status in later life: most women outlive their husbands, because women marry men older than themselves, older men are more likely to be married, because widowed men are more likely to remarry than widowed women. Retirement satisfaction and marriage www. notesolution. com: wives and husbands who time their retirements to coincide and then share household chores have the highest level of well-being.
