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What are the long term effects of retirement on family relationships? Do personality characteristics or attitudes of one spouse impinge on the other spouse's retirement plans and adjustment? What differences exist in the ways males and females adapt to retirement? Leading researchers in the fields of family studies and gerontology present enlightening information on the impact of retirement on family relations. Original essays focus on gender and ethnic differences, the role of children, siblings, and significant others, and the multiple changes retirement creates in marriage. In addition, a variety of theoretical models, existing research, and methodological problems in studying retired families are explored. Families and Retirement is essential reading for graduate students, researchers, and professionals in gerontology, sociology, social work, family psychology, and policy studies. “This is a well-written book. The editors have done a great job in selecting chapter authors whose research is important and directly related to the focus of the book…. The book will be an excellent text for sociology classes focusing mainly on retirement. It will also serve well as a supplemental text in gerontology, family studies, economics, and other college and university courses wherein retirement is studied.” --Journal of Marriage and the Family “Just when it seems too complex a task to produce a text that addresses retirement from the perspective of the family, a new work appears that does just that…. The editors have successfully expanded [the] traditional concern with the individual by choosing studies showing relationships and issues on aspects of retirement and family.” --Family Relations
Marital Status and Retirement Plans: Do Widowhood and Divorce Make a Difference?
Marital Status and Retirement Plans: Do Widowhood and Divorce Make a Difference?
Widowhood and divorce are major life transitions, dissolving relationships that are central among the roles of most adults. The effect of these marital transitions reaches beyond the psychological and emotional to reshape most aspects of the lives of individuals, including modified relationships with kin, changes in social life, residential mobility, modified self-concept and changing pressures on both employment and retirement.1 It is not simply the relationship with the spouse that is lost, but typically an entire way of life. This chapter examines whether termination of marriage prior to age 60 has an influence on the subsequent retirement plans of mature women. ...
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