grooming

(verb)

Grooming occurs when friends or neighbors build relationships of trust with elders in order to gain control of their finances.

Related Terms

  • domestic elder abuse
  • institutional elder abuse

Examples of grooming in the following topics:

  • Elder Abuse

    • Serious offenses can be committed by abusive groomers through grooming an older person by befriending him or her in order to build trusting relationships that can then be exploited.
    • Older people living with no adult children nearby are particularly vulnerable to grooming by neighbors and friends who might seek to gain control of their estates.
  • The Origins of Culture

    • Language and culture then both emerged as a means of using symbols to construct social identity and maintain coherence within a social group too large to rely exclusively on pre-human ways of building community (for example, grooming).
  • Anticipatory Socialization and Resocialization

    • Practices commonly associated with anticipatory socialization include grooming, play-acting, training, and rehearsing.
  • Family

    • In northern Ghana, for example, payment of bridewealth, which is an amount of money, wealth, or property paid to the bride's parents by the groom's family, signifies a woman's requirement to bear children, and women using birth control face substantial threats of physical abuse and reprisals.
  • The Nature of Marriage

  • The Family Life Cycle

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