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Part VII
Chapter Twenty-Two
cohort
people born within a few years of one another--these people are affected by the same: values, events, technologies, culture
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Intimacy
intimacy needs are lifelong adults meet their social needs for social connection with relatives, friends, coworkers, and romantic partners
social convoy collectively, the family members, friends, acquaintances, and even strangers who move through life with an individual
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Intimacy
Friends
typically the most supportive members of the social convoy, because they are chosen research study found that friendships tend to improve with age
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Intimacy
Protection Against Stress
allostatic load
the total, combined burden, of stress and disease that an individual must cope with
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Intimacy
Gender Differences
linked lives
the notion that family members tend to share all aspects of each others lives, from triumph to tragedy
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Intimacy
Family Bonds
household
a group of people who live together in one dwelling and share its common spaces, such as kitchen and living room
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Intimacy
A Developmental View
familism
the idea that family members should support one another because family unity is more important than individual freedom and success or failure
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Intimacy
Adult Siblings
fictive kin
a term used to describe someone who becomes accepted as part of a family to whom he or she has no blood relationship
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Intimacy
Marriage
a public commitment to one long-term sexual partner adults seek committed sexual partnerships to help meet their needs for intimacy, to raise children, share resources, and provide care
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Intimacy
Marriage and Happiness
from a developmental perspective, marriage is useful adults thrive if another person is committed to caring for them; married people are a littler happier, healthier and richer than unmarried people
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Intimacy
Long-Term Marriage
long-term quality of a marriage relationship is affected by family relationships in childhood empty nest
a time in the lives of parents when their grown children leave the family home to pursue their own lives
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Intimacy
Homosexual Partners
everything that applies to heterosexual partners applies to homosexual partners who make a commitment to each other
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Intimacy
Divorce
marriages never ends in a vacuumthey are influenced by the social and political context
Divorce Rates
the power of the social context is evident in variations in divorce rates
Generativity
after intimacy comes generativity,
generativity versus stagnation
when adults seek to be productive in a caring way, usually through work or parenthood (Erikson)
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Generativity
Caregiving
Erikson wrote, a mature adult needs to be needed some caregiving is physical but much is psychological kinkeeper
the person who takes primary responsibility for celebrating family achievements, gathering the family together, and keeping in touch with family members who do not live nearby
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Generativity
Caring for Children
bearing and raising children is labor intensive the insistence on dramatizing the dependence of children on adults often blinds us to the dependence of the older generation on the young one
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Generativity
Many paths to parenthood
a parental alliance assumes two cooperating parents children can develop well in any family 1/3 of North American adults become stepparents, adoptive parents, or foster parents at some point in their lives the social construction about real parents is misleading
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Generativity
Caregiving for Aging Parents
sandwich generation
a term for the generation of middle-aged people who are supposedly squeezed by the needs of the younger and older generationssome adults do feel pressured by these obligations, but most are not burdened by them, either because they enjoy fulfilling them or because they choose to take on only some of them, or none
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Generativity
Employment
Many benefits
extrinsic rewards of work
the tangible rewards, usually in the form of compensation, that one receives for a job (e.g., salary, benefits, pension)
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Generativity
Human Needs
it is crucial to learn how new work conditions support developmentin the functions of family caregiving, personal creativity, satisfaction, and esteem and mentoring of other workers
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Generativity
Diversity
benefit of modern economy is increased diversity
more employed women and minority groups higher employment rates have helped with those once shut out
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