FRHD 1020- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 19 pages long!)

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Family Relations and Human Development
• Course: FRHD 1020
• Professor: Ruth Neustifter

Document Summary

Three key issues: there are 3 key areas of conflict for older people and their family members. Individual with personal health problems may be embarrassed or humiliated to talk about their difficulties. In return their grandchildren had the honoured responsibility of helping them remain independent. Social policies and seniors: because of improved pensions, fewer elderly people are now living in poverty. Divorce: the legal dissolution of a marriage. Divorce is the most common deviation from the traditional family life cycle. It is becoming so common that it may in time come to be considered as (cid:494)normal(cid:495) family event. Divorced families add two or three phases to the life cycle: separation, perhaps remarriage and stabilization in a new family pattern. The symbolic interactionist perspective looks at the individual reasons for divorce. The macro perspectives focus on the wider social context and how these create trends in the divorce rate.