[4] Age segregation in the U.S. was a product of industrialization, Western formal schooling, child labor laws, social services agencies, and the rise of disciplines such as psychology and education.
A combination of these caused a shift from family working as a unit to separation of economic activities and childcare emerged.
[2] It is also present in the work force, which can make it more difficult for older adults to find jobs or change employment paths because of their age.
The most distinguished example is the family, in which children, parents, and grandparents frequently develop close cross-age relationships.
According to Uhlenberg and Gierveld, many lower class black families in the United States have high levels of interaction with kin, and older adults.
The study also found that the perception of the elderly in relation to factors that are most important to their quality of life is at variance with that of policy makers.
[11] These businesses are not limited to those intended to only serve adult customers such as bars; no kid zones are frequently coffeehouses, restaurants,[12] and movie theatres.
[13] The National Library of Korea is a no kid zone and prevents children under the age of 16 from entering unless they apply for entry.
[20] Corendon, a Turkish airline that offers such seating on certain flights, places families with children at the back of the plane.
Society expected teachers to be experts on a particular age group, family members to specialize in different kinds of work, and people to move through major life roles in a fixed pattern.
Martin Kohli argues that over the length of the twentieth century, age was enormously used to assign people to or prohibit them from particular activities.
[26] In a 2010 article for Perspectives on Psychological Science, authors Rogoff et al. state that age-segregated housing can hold some advantages for the elderly such as a higher chance of having more things in common with their peers.