Final Flashcards
Families whose memberships comprise blood and non-blood relationships through divorce or remarriage.
Blended Families
Grandparents who have legal custody of their grandkids when adult children are unable to provide care.
Custodial Grandparents
Normative for middle aged parents of adult children when they leave home for college or employment.
Empty Nest
Placement of children with relatives by the state child foster care.
Formal Kinship Care
People in formal (e.g., physicians,
nurses) or informal (e.g., friends and neighbors) service roles who regularly interact with older adults and can watch for signs indicating a need for assistance
Gatekeepers
Legal rights of grandparents to interact with grand children following divorce of the grandparents children; liabilities of grandparent and stepgrandparents as guardians of grandchildren in absence of responsible parents.
Grandparent’s rights
relatives, especially grandparents, provide care without any formal child welfare involvement or benefits.
Informal Kinship Care
Services that facilitate the interaction of people across generations; typically young and old.
Intergenerational Programs
Pattern whereby the older generation tends to be more invested in future generations around transmission of values and resources.
Intergenerational Stake Hypothesis
Strong emotional ties between family members even when they don’t live near each other.
Intimacy at a distance
A family with three or more generations alive at one time. Considers the needs of the middle generation not just the young and the old.
Multigenerational family
People who assist others because of their concern interest and innate understanding
Natural Helper
New family structures derived through gay and lesbian partnerships, cohabitation and adoption.
Nontraditional Families
Sharing resources and assistance among individuals.
Reciprocal Change
Where the parent generation is absent.
Skipped Generation Household
Close social relationships that surround an individual and can provide a protective, secure base, but personal and situational characteristics influence the type and extent of support needed.
Social Convoy Model
Encompasses both social networks and support; degree to which a person is involved with others in the larger social structure and community.
Social Integration
The interrelationships and interactions between individuals that affect the flow of resources and support.
Social Networks