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| Factors for postponing marrriage |
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| Demographics, sex ratio (females outnumber men), technological advances |
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| Living alone together in Europe and the US |
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| A couple is engaged in a long term realtionship but each partner maintains a sepearate dwelling. Increasing in both US and Europe |
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| Reasons for living with parents |
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| Economic factors, unemployment rates, housing was to expensive, |
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| Children who have left their parents home and have then returned |
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| Situations or places characterized by group living. Designed to provide enhanced opporunities for social support and companionship |
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| Married couples vs. cohabitors |
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| Gans equal status as marriage because: majority of people marry without living together. More people live together as a form of cortship, socially acceptable alternative to marriage, indisgingishable legally and socially, marriage signifies a loss of identity and stifles partner's equality and communication |
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| To get to know your partner better, acceptable alternative to marriage, can't tell the difference between the two |
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| Partners in an unmarried couple who have registered their partnership with a civil authority and then enjoy some (although not necessarily all) rights, benefits, and entitlements that have traditionally been reserved for marrieds |
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| Adolescents that live with cohabitating parents |
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| More likely to experience ealier premarital intercourse, high rates of school suspension, and antisocial and delinquent behaviors |
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| Children's gender identity of same-sex parents |
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| No evidence that children are confused about their gender identity or that they are more likely to be homosexual |
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| Culture war concerning human sexuality and gender |
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| For religious fundamentalists and other conservative groups, the move to legalize marriage is an attempt to deconstruct traditional morality. |
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| Catherine Ross's suggestions regarding social attachment |
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| Timberger's pillars of support |
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| A nurturing home, satisfying work, satisfaction witht heir sexuality, connections to the next generation, a network of friends and possibly family members, and feeling of community |
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| Single women's emphasis of life meaning |
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| Marriage and adult status |
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| Parents' emotional satisfaction from having children |
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| They bring vitality and a sense of purpose into a household. Evidence shows that children, espcially young ones, stabilize marriage, reseach finds that not only do parents report lower marital satisfaction than nonparents, but the more children there are, the lower the satisfaction rate is |
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| Parents forego income and investment when they raise their children (parents work additional hours and have less leisure time) |
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| Advantages to later parenthood |
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| Better off financially, completed education |
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| Advantages to earlier parenthood |
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| Feel more spontaneious, and youthful |
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| Advantages of one-child family |
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| can ease time, energy, and economic concerns, only children recieve more personal attention from parents |
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| Adoptions that take place through licensed agencies |
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| American childbearing patterns in the decades since WWII |
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| Multiple birth rates since 1980 |
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| Have increased dramatically since then |
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| The voluntarily childless have more education and are more likely to have managerial or professional employment and higher incomes. Value relative freedom to change jobs or careers, move around the country, and pursue endeavors, more satisfied with relationshioped and are less conventional than parenting couples |
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| The American Psychological Association's position on abortion |
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| Situation of a couple or individual who should like to have a baby but cannot. Medically diagnosed whena woman has tried for twelve months to become pregnant without success |
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| An emotional disorder in which a person defensively shuts off the willingness or ability to make emotional attachments to anyone |
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| American women birthing rate |
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| Reasons for drop in fertility levels |
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| Sterilization, birth control |
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| Ethnic group in the US with the highest fertility rates |
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| Its difficult because: cultural pressure encourages adults to become parents even though they may not really want to, most first parents approach parenting with little or no previous experience in child care, parents are on duty 24/7, changes couples emotional and sexual realtionships |
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| Working class parents and models of parenting |
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| Working class individuals tend to emphasize obedience and conformity |
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| Males who are not a biological father but are performing the role of father, such as a stepfather |
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| More than 3.6 million children under age of 18 are living witht heir grandparents and represent 5% of children under 18 |
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| Social context of child rearing that makes modern parenting difficult |
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| Often times have to juggle work with parenting, taking care of elderly parents, and parents authority is sometimes questioned regardless of wheather they raised a sucessful child or not |
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| What influences how new parents view their babies |
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| The parent, usually but not necessarily the mother, who assumes principal responsibility for raising the child |
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| New image of a "good" father |
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| Percentage of single fathers |
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| Stress model of parental effectiveness |
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| The idea that stress experienced by parents causes parental frustration, anger, and depression, increasing the likelihood of household conflicy and leading to poorer parenting practices |
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| Percent of mothers that which they had more time with their children |
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| Upper-class, highly educated parents emphasis on their children |
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| Foster language, critical thinking skills, self direction and initiative because they have material resources better-enabling them for occupational stress |
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| Authoritative parenting style |
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| High on emotional nurturing but high on parental direction and control |
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| Grandparents raising grandchildren |
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| More than 3.6 million children under the age of 18, which makes up about 5% of children under 18 |
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