"Because of unprecedented increases in , the structure has been transformed. Linkages among family members have been prolonged, and the surviving generations in a family have increased in number and complexity. Today's kinship structure (which has no parallel in history) can be viewed in a new way: as a latent web of continually shifting linkages that provide the potential for activating and intensifying close family relationships. These relationships are no longer prescribed as strict obligations, but must be earned—created and recreated by family members over their lives. Such changes in the structure and dynamics of family relationships raise many questions and issues for students of the family including the development of special research approaches needed to understand the complexity of these relationships and the nature of older people's family relationships in the future."
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Matilda White Riley
(née White, April 19, 1911 – November 14, 2004) was an American sociologist, known for her research and writing on sociological aspects of gerontology. She was elected in 1977 a Fellow of the , in 1987 a Fellow of the , and in 1994 a Member of the U.S. . She served as the president of the for one academic year from 1985 to 1986.
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