FRHD 3060 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Married People, Distant Relatives, Elder Abuse

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Chapter 9 family ties, relationships, and transitions. In recent decades, 5 major changes in family and kinship structures occurred: 1. Kinship system has become longer: more vertical ties and intergenerational relationships resulting in more complex relationships, 2. Emergence of truncated families: which a specific family lineage eventually disappears when the youngest generation is childless by choice or by chance, 4. Increased number of reconstituted or blended families as a set of family relationships: a child may have four, six or eight sets of grandparents, 5. Factors influencing family relationships four dimensions of family relationships central to imitate ties and to relationships among and within generations in later life: 1. If they do not speak english or french and if they live in non-ethnic, suburban communicates, with no contact with age peers from their cultural groups, the family may be their only social contact.

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