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Social support system
The network of relatives , friends, and organizations that provide both emotional support, such as making the individual feel loved or comforted, and instrumental support, which refers to help in managing activities of daily living.
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Support bank
The exchanges made between members of the social support network over the life course.
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Convoy model of social relations
A theoritical model stating that each person moves through life surrounded by a group of people to whom he or she is related through the exchange of social support; dynamic and life long in nature.
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Nuclear family
The family unit consisting of husband, wife and children.
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Extended family
The network of familial relationships, including grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, nieces and nephews outside the nuclear family.
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Verticalization of the family structure
The increase in family linkages between preceding and subsequent generations because of increased life expectancy coupled with reduced fertility.
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Bean pole family structure
The phenomenon of four or five generations of a family surviving at one time.
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Remote grandparenting
Grandparents who see their grandchildren infrequently and have a relationship that is mainly ritualistic and symbolic.
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Compationate grandparenting
Grandparents who focus on emotionally satisfying, leisure-time activities and report and easygoing, friendly style of interaction with their grandchildren.
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Involved grandparenting
Grandparents who take an active role in rearing their grandchildren; frequently they behave more like parents than grandparents; see children daily, often because theya re living with them.
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Grandparent career
The life course pattern to grandparent-grandchild relationships.
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