lifespan longitudinal study

Lifespan Longitudinal Study

Carol Smith is a 55-year-old female . She has two children , Brian , 29 and Keisha , 21 . Her Husband died 4 years ago due to Diabetes and other complications . When we first met up to start the initial interview , she seemed like a woman young for her age . She is a petite woman with short brown hair with fair skin she was actually an attractive person . I really did not have a hard time to speak to her and to interact with her because right from the start , she was very kind

and warming . She was a very nice woman and I observed that her attitude towards everything was so positive . Carol is currently a volunteer worker for an organization that caters to children who were abused , maltreated , and taken advantage of . Right now , she is living with her daughter and her daughter has adopted child . Her family was quite well off judging by where they live in

Carol grew up with a well off family . Her mother was from the suburbs and her father grew up in the city . When they got married , they started a business that garnered more than enough income . Her father 's family was apparently well known in their place and everybody liked her father and mother . On the other hand , her mother 's family was not too fond of her father . She really didn 't understand why though . She said that it was not that they had any biases about rich people but rather they had biases about her father . I have learned that they didn 't like her father because , though potentially rich , they thought that he didn 't have much to offer my mother . They kept on pushing her to marry this soon to be doctor . They thought that she would have more of a future with him . In the end , her mother did not finish college , got married to her father and had her older brother

She showed me a picture of herself when she was a child . I never thought she was that girl in the picture because the girl in the picture was plump . She was not fat however it was obvious that her natural body type was slim . She had thick shoulder length hair and smooth skin . Her teeth were apparently a dentist 's nightmare ' as she described it because she did not have straight teeth back then

In most pictures , she was alone except for pictures with relatives . Her childhood memories were still intact by now . She clearly remembers every detail like it just happened yesterday . She told me that her father was strict when in comes to her . She did not understand back then why it seemed that her brother had the freedom to do everything he wanted and everything was opposite when it came to her . They lived in an exclusive subdivision near the city . She narrated instances wherein her father became strict to her : First , she didn 't have playmates in the house...