Sociology of Aging J5

J5

1. Describe each of the recent structural changes and adaptations: changes in past decade: Divorce, Remarriage, and Blended Forms; changes in LGBT families over the last decade.

2. How do these benefit the individual through information, or emotional, or instrumental assistance.

3. What are the cultural variations in the intergenerational kinship network 4. What are factors that influence grandparents raising their grandchildren 5. Describe what you learned from the Mather et. al. article about the National

Health and Aging Trends Study (NHATS) data. 6. Summarize the Wait and Das article