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| a critical change of events that disrupts the functioning of a person's life |
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| tensions that test a family's emotional resources |
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| general adaptation syndrome (GAS) |
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| the predictable patter one's body follows when coping with stress, which includes the alarm reaction, resistance and exhaustion |
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| social readjustment rating scale |
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| a scale of major life events over the past year, each of which is assigned a point value. The higher the score, the greater the chance of having a serious medical event |
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| a model designed to help us understand the variation in the ways that families cope with stress and crisis |
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| a model designed to help us understand the effects of the accumulation of stresses and crises and how families adapt to them |
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| intimate partner violence |
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| violence between those who are physically and sexually intimate, such as spouses or partners. The violence can encompass physical, economic, sexual or psychological abuse |
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| a scale based on how people deal with disagreements in relationships |
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| the psychological condition of having low-self esteem, feeling helpless, and having no control that is caused by repeated abuse |
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| battered women's syndrome |
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| a recognized psychological condition, often a subcategory of post-traumatic stress syndrome, used to describe someone who has been the victim of consistent and/or severe domestic violence |
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| drugs such as gamma hydroxybutyrate (GHB), Rohypnol (popularly known as "roofies" or "roofenol"), or ketamine hydrochloride (Ketamine) that are used to immobilize a person to facilitate and assault |
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| an attack on a child that results in an injury and violates our social norms |
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| the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring, or receipt of persons, by means of threat or use of force or other forms of coercion, of abduction, of fraud or deception, of the abuse of power or of a position of vulnerability, or of the giving or receiving of payments to achieve the consent of a person having control over another person, for the purpose of exploitation |
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| an industry in which children are coerced, kidnapped, sold, or deceived into sexual encounters |
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| abuse of an elderly person that can include physical abuse, sexual abuse, psychological abuse, financial or material exploitation, and neglect |
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| intergenerational transmission of violence |
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| a cycle of violence that is passed down to dependents |
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| domestic violence shelter |
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| a temporary safe house for a woman (with or without children) who is escaping an abusive relationship |
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| the number of divorces per 1,000 people in the population |
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| a measure of divorce based on the number of divorces that occur out of every 1,000 married women |
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| intergenerational transmission of divorce |
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| a pattern noted by researchers that people whose parents are divorced are also more likely to divorce |
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| a type of divorce, now prevalent in all 50 states, in which a divorcing couple can go before a judge without one party having to blame the other |
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| a binding agreement signed by both spouses that provides details about child support |
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| the interrelated emotional, legal, economic, co-parental, community and psychic dimensions of divorce, which together attempt to capture the complexity of the divorce experience |
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| payment by one partner to the other to support the more dependent spouse for a period of time |
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| a custody agreement where one parent has the legal authority to make important decisions concerning the children after a divorce, such as where they will go to school, in what community or state they will reside, or who will be notified in case of a health emergency or school problem |
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| a child custody arrangement in which legal custody is grated solely to the parent with whom the child lives |
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| a custody agreement in which noncustodial parents (usually fathers) retain their legal rights with respect to their children |
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| a child custody arrangement decides where the child will reside |
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| a child custody arrangement in which the child legally lives with one parent and "visits" the other parent |
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| a custody agreement in which children spend a substantial portion of time in the homes of both parents, perhaps alternating weeks or days within a week |
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| the act of a noncustodial parent kidnapping his or her child |
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| a non-adversarial means of resolution, in which the divorcing couple, along with a third party, such as a therapist or trained mediator, negotiate the terms of their financial, custody, and visitation statement |
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| a legal document delineating the amount and circumstances surrounding the financial support of noncustodial children |
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| a type of family consisting of divorced parents living in 2 separate households but remaining one family in spirit for the sake of the children |
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| the act of entering into a relationship after a divorce, which may lead to cohabitation or marriage |
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| the view that women's attractiveness and femininity decline with age, but men's attractiveness and masculinity do not decline |
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| blended family (or reconstituted family) |
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| another term for a stepfamily; a family that may consist of stepparents, stepsiblings or half-siblings |
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| children who share both biological parents |
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| children not biologically related but whose parents are married to one another |
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| a child who shares one biological parent with another child |
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| the child or children born to a couple that has remarried |
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| residential stepchild(ren) |
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| a child or children living in the household with a remarried couple more than half the time |
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| nonresidential child(ren) |
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| child or children living in the household of a divorced parent less than half the time |
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| people born in the years after WWII through the early 1960s |
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| the amount of time (in years) a person can expect to live from birth |
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| a person who lives to be at least 100 years old |
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| a federal government sponsored cash assistance program for seniors (and survivors) |
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| a perspective that claims development proceeds through a fairly set pattern of sequential stages that most people experience |
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| a perspective that claims development is a lifelong process, is multidirectional and consists of both positive and negative changes involving gains and losses |
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| a perspective that sees age-related transitions as socially produced, socially recognized, and shared-a product of social structure, historical forces and culture |
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| companionate grandparenting |
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| a type of grandparenting where the grandparents and grandchildren enjoy recreational activities, occasional overnight stays and even babysitting with an emphasis on fun and enjoyment |
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| a type of grandparenting in which the grandparents and grandchildren are emotionally or physically distant |
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| a type of grandparenting in which the grandparents and grandchildren have frequent interaction or possibly even live together |
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| maintaining ties among family members |
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| Activities of Daily Living (ADLs) |
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| general day-to-day activities such as cooking, cleaning, bathing, and home repair |
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| the loss of mental functions such as thinking, memory, and reasoning |
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| the most common form of dementia; at present, it is incurable |
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| care provided by social service agencies on a paid or volunteer basis |
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| maintaining ties among family members |
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| researchers studying issues affecting the elderly |
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| Activities of Daily Living (ADLs) |
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| general day-to-day activities such as cooking, cleaning, bathing, and home repair |
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| the loss of mental functions such as thinking, memory, and reasoning |
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| unpaid care by someone close to the care recipient |
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| a generation of people who are in the middle of 2 living generations providing care to members of cohorts on both sides of them, parents and children |
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| a multi-faceted ability to thrive despite adversity |
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| individual-level protective factors |
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| traits including a positive self-concept, sociability, intelligence and scholastic competence, autonomy, self-esteem, androgyny, good communication and problem-solving skills, humor, and good mental and physical health |
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| family protective factors |
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| family characteristics or dynamics that shape the family's ability to endure in the face of risk factors |
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| family characteristics or dynamics that assist families in bouncing back from a crisis situation |
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| community features that help promote resilience, such as social networks and religious and faith-based fellowships |
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| programs for which only a select group of people is eligible |
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| programs for which beneficiaries need to meet some eligibility requirement to qualify |
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| programs to help strengthen all families without any eligibility requirement |
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| a tax system under which those who earn more pay a higher percentage to their income in taxes than those who earn less |
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| national health insurance |
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| a healthcare system for all citizens that considers health care a public right |
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| maternity (or family) leave |
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| a paid and guaranteed leave from work to care for children, including after the birth of a child |
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| flexibility on the daily hours of work |
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| flexibility in the location of work, including working from home |
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| flexibility in the location of work, including working from home |
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| a refundable federal tax credit for low-income working families that reduces the amount of taxes owed |
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| Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) |
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| the principle cash welfare program in the United States |
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| early childhood intervention |
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| attempts to maintain or improve the quality of life for young children |
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| cumulative advantage and disadvantage |
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| early life chances that influence status in later life |
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