Just Like Family: Fictive Kin Relationships in the Netherlands
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Just like family: fictive kin relationships in the Netherlands.
OBJECTIVES This study examined the extent to which older adults in the Netherlands include a nonrelative as part of their family (create fictive kin), and whether this process is similar in other age groups. It assessed the importance of absence of close family ties and the experience of divorce in the family network for the creation of fictive kin. METHOD Using data from the Netherlands Kins...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1079-5014,1758-5368
DOI: 10.1093/geronb/gbt048