Friendship networks and care

Trimberger

E. Kay

Trimberger, E. Kay

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University of California, Berkeley

Center for Working Families

University of California, Berkeley. Center for Working Families

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Center for Working Families, University of California, Berkeley

2002

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Based on her own research and a survey of both quantitative and qualitative social research, the author demonstrates the importance of care by a network of friends for the elderly, the seriously ill, single adults, singles mothers and in times of crisis. Although women predominate as friends who care, the response of gay men to the AIDS epidemic demonstrates that such care does not have to be gender specific. The author discusses the limits of such informal care, and argues for greater cultural recognition of care by friends as distinct from family, and for changes in social policy.

E. Kay Trimberger is an affiliate at the Center for Working Families and a sociologist and professor in the Women's and Gender Studies Department at Sonoma State University.

Berkeley Center for Working Families Working Paper No. 31

Berkeley Center for Working Families Working Paper

No. 31

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