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Question 1.
Multigenerational households are more common in Caucasian families.
   
 
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Question 2.
Informal support systems are crucial to an older person’s physical, mental and emotional well-being.
   
 
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Question 3.
The family is the primary source of an older person’s social support.
   
 
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Question 4.
Men are more likely to report being satisfied with their marriage than women are.
   
 
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Question 5.
Future cohorts of adult children will have more siblings to assist them in caring for the greater number of older adults.
   
 
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Question 6.
Most women view the "empty nest" as a depressing time in their lives.
   
 
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Question 7.
Childless older adults are found to have the same number of social contacts and to be just as healthy as their counterparts with living children.
   
 
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Question 8.
Grandparents are generally closer to their granddaughters than to their grandsons.
   
 
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Question 9.
Delayed departure or the return of children has been referred to as the "empty nest"
   
 
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Question 10.
The increase in the number of grandparents who are the primary caregivers to young children is one of the most dramatic changes in recent decades.
   
 
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