Although this approach is valuable and informative, there are both theoretical and empirical reasons to suspect that “adding up” individual aspects of networks (e.g., network size) does not equate to the effect of being embedded in a network with a particular array of attributes (e.g., small network size or frequent contact with children; see Antonucci & Akiyama, 1987; Bosworth & Schaie, 1997; Magai, Consedine, King, & Gillespie, 2003)