SYO-3100 Chapter 10: chapter 10
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It would be a mistake to think of older adults only as recipients of assistance because they are also important providers of assistance to children and grandchildren. The statistics 308: a century ago, far fewer people lived long enough to become grandparents, much of the decline in adult mortality from preindustrial levels occurred in the. 20th century: active life expectancy: the number of years a person can expect to live without a disability. The decline in fertility is the second reason why grandparenthood on a large scale is a recent phenomenon. When a person becomes a grandparent, there are fewer family roles. Horizontal kinship: those to relatives in the same generation as you- tended to shrink. Vertical kinship: those to relatives in preceding or following generations- have tended to grow. As recently as 1960, older americans were an economically deprived group. No longer disadvantaged because of social security.
