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Sociology
Undergraduate 1
12/10/2008

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Term
dual earner marriage
Definition
both married partners are employed outside the home
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feminization of poverty
Definition
diana pearce; denotes the likely hood that female head of households will be poor owing to job and wage discrimination, high divorce rates and births to unmarried woman
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poverty line
Definition
defined as the minimal level of income the u.s. gov. considers necessary for individual and family subsistance
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role ambiguity
Definition
others expectations are unknown when you don't know what others expect of you either because they don't have the necessary information or becuase they deliberately withhold it from you
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role conflict
Definition
occurs when expectations of two or more roles are incompatible
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role overload
Definition
occurs when others expectations exceed ones abilitiy to meet them
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acquaintance rape
Definition
nonconsensual sex between adults who know each other
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sandwich generation
Definition
sandwich between taking care of children and their own aging parents. harris and binchler
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stalking
Definition
repeated and malicious following or harassment of another person
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woman's safe house
Definition
who's existence is known only to residents and shelter workers, private homes that provide temporary housing for abused woman
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alimony
Definition
consists of court ordered financial support by a spouse or a former spouse to the other fallowing separation or divorce. Lenore Weitzman ''alimony myth"
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annulment
Definition
pronouncement that declares that a couple never had a valid marriage, returning both partners to singe status and allowing them to marry others
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child custody
Definition
the court mandated decision as to which parent will be primarely responsible for the upbringing and welfare of the child
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child support
Definition
ongoing financial assistance for child care expenses that the separated or divorced parent with the custody of the child receives from the non custodial parent
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dead beat dads
Definition
fathers who don't meet there court ordered child support responsibilities
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economic divorce
Definition
involves settlement of the property
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emotional divorce
Definition
involves loss of affection, trust and respect for each other and replaces positive emotions with indifference or destructive emotions
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joint custody
Definition
the children divide their time between both parents
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joint physical custody
Definition
children lives with both parents dividing their time on a more or less equal bases between the separate households
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joint legal custody
Definition
children live with one parent, but both share decisions about their children's upbringing
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sole custody
Definition
children live with one parent, who is solely responsible for raising them, and the other parent has legally specified visitation rights
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split custody
Definition
the children are divided between the two parents
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binuclear family
Definition
a family in which former spouses and children live in two different households
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blended family
Definition
step family; in which is created when two people marry and one or both brings into the household a child or children from the previous marriage
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cultural script
Definition
or set of social norms for guiding the various participants in their relations with one another
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serial monogamy
Definition
defined as participation in a sequence of marital partnership one at a time
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swedish proverb
Definition
shared joy is double joy, shared sorrow is half sorrow
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