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| structure home and work lives into turn-taking, alternative system |
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| Negatives of Shift Couples |
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- suffer more distress
- greater dissatisfaction
- higher risk of divorce
- more problematic relationships with children
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| Positives of Shift Couples |
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- ability to take turns taking care of children
- save money on child care
- reduce some stress about outside caregivers
- potentially higher wages
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| Base relationship on deep friendship, fairness and sharing |
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| 3 greatest social needs in dual-earner marriages |
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- redefining gender roles to eliminate role overload for women
- providing adequate child care
- restructuring the workplace
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| Husbands provide housework and childcare, wives support financially |
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| Abuse of power for sexual ends and creation of hostile environment |
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| Unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, other verbal/physical conduct of sexual nature as a condition of instruction or employment |
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| someone acts in sexual ways to interfere with a person's performance by creating a hostile/offensive learning or work environment |
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| 1/3 of children between ages 11 and 12 |
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| Lack of childcare consequences |
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- prevents mom from taking paid jobs
- keeps women in part-time/low pay jobs
- prevents women from job promotions
- sometimes conflicts with job performance
- restricts women from participating in education programs
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| Economic Distress of Unemployment |
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unemployment, poverty, economic strain
Increases in infant mortality, alcoholism, family abuse, homicide, suicide, admissions to psychiatric institutions and prisons |
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| Emotional Distress of Unemployment |
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| men feel as if they've failed: despair, desperation, confusion, impotency, powerlessness |
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| set of objectives concerning family well-being and specific government measures designed to achieve those objectives |
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| a government policy in which workers can choose and change their start and quit times to meet personal and familial needs |
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