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Title: Keeping in Touch: How Women in Mid-life Allocate Social Contacts among Kith and Kin
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Waite, Linda J. Harrison, Scott C. |
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Keeping in Touch: How Women in Mid-life Allocate Social Contacts among Kith and Kin Social Forces 70,3 (March 1992): 637-654. Also: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2579747 Cohort(s): Mature Women Publisher: University of North Carolina Press Keyword(s): Employment; Family Structure; Geographical Variation; Health/Health Status/SF-12 Scale; Income; Intergenerational Patterns/Transmission; Marital Status; Racial Differences; Support Networks Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Among 3,677 surveyed women, aged 44-59, contacts with friends and family depended on the relationship and household structure, followed by distance, resources, and individual predisposition toward maintaining ties. Race, educational attainment, and residence in the South or rural areas affected certain types of contacts. Contains 36 references. |
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Waite, Linda J. and Scott C. Harrison. "Keeping in Touch: How Women in Mid-life Allocate Social Contacts among Kith and Kin." Social Forces 70,3 (March 1992): 637-654.
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