CFD 1010 Lecture 27: Parent vs child

• School: UCM
• Department: Child and Family Development
• Course: CFD 1010
• Professor: Frank R Peterson

Document Summary

Parent-child relationships and the social-emotional development of older persons. The quality of the relationships that elderly individuals have with their children and grandchildren contributes to the development of the older person"s sense of integrity versus despair. The attainment of a sense of integrity is related to whether or not their children have turned out as parents had hoped they would: whether parents have been able to maintain satisfactory relations with them over the years. The transitions of elderly parents and their middle-aged children: retirement and widowhood - 2 primary normative transitions of older adults. There is a general pattern of stability in parent-child relations following retirement. Five distinct dimensions of meaning that grandparenthood brings to the life review: role centrality valued eldership immortality through clan reinvolvement with personal past indulgence. In individualistic cultures, grandparents maintain close relationships with grandchildren: while living independently from the parent child household.