Chapter Objectives

After reading the chapter, you should be able to:

1.

understand that family-of-origin experiences while growing up continue to exert an influence after marriage.

2.

discuss the causes and alternatives to parental disapproval of mate choice

3.

identify some of the effects of positive and negative identification with parents and how these affect a person in adulthood.

4.

understand the realities of care provided by families to their elderly family members.

5.

discuss important considerations relating to intergenerational bonds, in particular, mother-grown-daughter relationships and father-son support networks.

6.

discuss important issues in relation to conflicts between parents and adult children.

7.

summarize some of the basic information about relationships with in-laws:

the relationship of in-law adjustment to marital happiness
causes and alternatives to in-law conflict

8.

identify considerations in living with extended families during middle age

9.

discuss relationships with grandparents:

how grandparents are different today than in former generations
what grandparents can do for grandchildren
adolescent and young adult relations with grandparents
what grandchildren can do for grandparents
grandparents who parent their grandchildren

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