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05/02/2012

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Term
What are the three Definitions of Family?
Definition

Ancestry - Biological

Structure - Marriage, Adoption

Function - Finanical/ Emotional support

  •  Social Institution - Family provides care so society has new productive members
Term
What is the definition of US Census?
Definition
A group of two or more people related by blood, marriage or adoption and residing together in a household.
Term
What is Family Change?
Definition
  • A family life is diverse, resilient and adaptive to new circumstance.
  • Marriage is undergoing a revolutoin, not a crisis
Term
What is Family Decline?
Definition
  • A family life is seriously degraded by movement away from marriage & children.
  • Excessive individualism and self- indulgence
Term
What is Choosing by Default?
Definition

Unconscious decisions

  • Not aware of all alternatives
  • Pursure a course of action because it is common, seems easiest
Term
What are the 4 Choosing Knowledgeably?
Definition
  1. Recognizing as many options and alternatives as possible
  2. Considering conseqences of alternatives
  3. Being aware of values and choosing to act consistently with them
  4. Relation to families
  • To Parent/ Not Parent
  • Freedom of a child free union, rewards of parenthood, providing foster care
Term
What is Family Ecology?
Definition
Families influence and are influence by surrending environments.
Term
What is Family Development?
Definition
Family life cycle: families change in predictable ways over time.
Term
What is Interactionist?
Definition
Focus on relationships between individuals within a family and familes interaction with outside world.
Term
What does inreased life expectancy in Age for in Families in Social Context?
Definition

Most dramatic change of 20th century

  • People are living significantly longer
    • Life expertancy in 1900: 47 years
    • Life expertancy in 2006: 78 years
Term
What is Sex?
Definition

Male or Female anatomy and physiology.

  • Biological
Term
What is Gender?
Definition
Societal attitudes and behaviors expected of and associated with sexes
Term
What are the 4 Gender Norms?
Definition
  1. Reflects the unsual way we think about being male & female.
    • Beliefs about what is "normal" for woman and men
  2. Organize out expectations
  3. Simplify our life
  4. Can limit choices
Term
What does Early American/ Patriarchal sex mean?
Definition
  • Characterized by thoughts that when men have urgent sex drives, women are natually passive
  • Men controlled women's sexuality
  • Sex = reproduction (Marriage)
Term
What is Expressive Sexuality?
Definition
  • Sexually is basic part of being human for both women and men.
  • Sexually is more then just reproduction, enhances human intimacy.
    • Used to express feelings and emotions
Term
What is Risk, Caution and Intimacy?
Definition
  • Today peoplea re more cautions about risk of STDs
    • However, majority of unmarried young adults do report having intercourse.
  • More liberal sexual environment
    • Potentially there are more satisfying sexual relationships
  • Controversy over sex educaiton in public schools
    • Abstinence Only: promotes abstinence as only chioce until marriage.
    • Comprehensive: complete information on contraception and STD protection.
Term
What is the 3 Componts of the Triangle?
Definition
  1. Intimacy: Close connected bonoded feelings
  2. Passion: romance, phyical attraction
  3. ·         Commitment: to love and maintain that love

Term
What is Consummate Love?
Definition
Complete lovem all 3 conponents are present
Term
What is Emotional Interdependence?
Definition
Degree of autonomy and sense of self, yet make commitment to another
Term
What does A-Frame stands for?
Definition
  • Dependence: reliance on another for continual support or assurance A-Frame

Each stick of an A is an independent

  • Strong couple identity of self as indivdual
Term
What does H-Frame stands for?
Definition

Independence: self-relience and self- suffciency H-frame

  • Partners virtually stand alone, each self-sufficient, not much influence on each other
Term
What does M-Frame stands for?
Definition

Interdependence: Degree of autonomy and sense of self, yet make commitment to another M-frame

  • Sense of self with mutural influence and emotional support
Term
What is Homagamy?
Definition
Tendency to choose parnters like ourselves
Term
What is Heterogamy?
Definition
Between sexual and parthenogenetic generations.
Term
What is Expectation of Permanence?
Definition
Lifelong undertaking
Term
What is Expectation of Sexual Exculsivity?
Definition
Monogramy
Term
What does Single = unmarried mean?
Definition
  • Almost 50% of the population
  • Never-Married
    • Growing tendency to postpone marriage until older Divorced
Term
What does Voluntary Temporary Single means?
Definition
Expect to marry but searching for partner is low priority
Term
What does Involuntary Temporary Single means?
Definition
Expect to marry and actively seeking a partner
Term
What does Cohabitation means?
Definition
  • Living arrangement in which two people who are not related and not married live together and most likely engage in a sexual relationship.
  • Dramatic
Term
What does Emancipation mean?
Definition

Gain independence from parents

  • Prove adulthood
Term
What does Convenience mean?
Definition

Practical reasons (Large groups)

  • Share expenses, chores, time, sexual accessibility
Term
What is Testing Mode?
Definition
Trail to decide about marriage
Term
What are 2 Social Pressure?
Definition

1. Pressure to parent:

  • Pronatalist Bias - having children is taken for granted while not having children needs to be justifed

2. Pressure not to parent:

  • Structural Antiatalism - US society doesn't provide enough support for parents and children
Term
What is one of the conpments of Cost of Parenting?
Definition
Opportunities Cost - Economic opportunites for wage earning and investments, parents sometimes forgot to raise their children.
Term
What does Dealing with Misbavior mean?
Definition

Reason for misbavior

  • Attention seeking, boredom

What does H.A.L.T.S mean?

  • H - Hungry
  • A - Angry
  • L - Late
  • T - Tired
  • S - Sick
Term

What is Natural and Logical Conseqences?

 

Definition
  • Natural - occur without parent intervention
  • Logical - parent designed related to the behavior
Term
What makes Parenting Difficult?
Definition
  • Parenting roles often conflict with working roles
  • Parents are only one of several influences on children
  • Parents advice abounds
    • Not all experts agree
    • Not all advice are helpful /wanted
Term
What are the 3 Parenting Styles?
Definition
  1. Authoritarian
  2. Authoritative
  3. Laissez Faire
Term
What does Authoritarian mean?
Definition
  • Low on emotional nurturing and support but high on direction and control.
  • Parent in charge, Final say
  • Set and enforce rules

 

Term
What does Athoritative mean?
Definition
  • Combines emotional nurturing and support wwith parental direction
  • Consistently set limits, enforces rules, and consistently show love
  • "Warm, firm and fair"
Term
What does Pemissive mean?
Definition
  • Make few demands for responsibility or conduct
  • Allow children to regulate their own behavior
  • Few rules, inconsistently enforced
  • Sometimes there very high on emotional nurturing
Term
What does Two-earner Marriages mean?
Definition
  • Both partners are in the labor force
  • Current norm among married couples
Term
What is Family Friendly workplace policies?
Definition
Policies that are supportive of employee efforts to combine family and work commitments
Term
What is Childcare Stresses?
Definition
  • Sources of paternal stress
    • Difficult to find
      • Hours of operation
Term
What is Report talk?
Definition
  • Male
  • Conversation to convey information

 

 

Term
What is Rapport Talk?
Definition
  • Female
  • Conversation to reinforce relationships and intimacy
Term
What are the Four Hoursemen of the Apocalypse?
Definition
  • Contempt
  • Criticism
  • Defensiveness
  • Stonewalling
Term
What is Contempt?
Definition
Feeling the partner is inferior
Term
What is Criticism?
Definition
Disapproving judgments or evaluations
Term
What is Defensiveness?
Definition
Preparing defense aganist upcoming attack
Term
What is Stonewalling?
Definition
Resistance, refusing to listen, and refusing to engage.
Term
What is Emotional Violence?
Definition
  • Name calling, threats, humiliation
  • Tearing someone down
    • More freguent and devastatinng than physical violence
    • Nearly always present in cases of physical violence
Term
What are the 3 Cycle of Violence?
Definition
  1. Tension Building
  2. Violence
  3. Honeymoon
Term
What does Stressors mean?
Definition
Events/ situations that lead to stress
Term
What are 3 Characterisics for less difficult to cope?
Definition
  1. Expected
  2. Brief
  3. Gradually improve over time
Term
What are the 2 types for Family Stressors?
Definition

1. Sudden unexpected changed

  • Natural disasters
  • Promotion

2. Daily Family Hassles

  • Balancing work/ family
  • Transportation
Term
What is Divorce Statistics?
Definition
  • 40 % of First Marriage end in a divorce
  • 8 years is the median length of First Marriage that ends in a divorce.
Term
Why does increased rick for divorce important?
Definition
  • Marriage partners are young (teens- early 20s)
  • Brief engagement (brief dating)
  • Few Years of education
  • Multiple Marriage
Term
What is a Emotional Divorce?
Definition
  • Unually starts first nice, than argument problems
  • Thinking in terms of "I" instead of "We"
  • Withheld postive emotions and communication
  • Decision that marriage can't be saved
Term
What is a Legal Divorce?
Definition
  • Formal dissolution of the marriage
  • No - Fault divorce since 1970s, no longer have to prove "grounds for divorce"
Term
What is a Economic Divorce?
Definition
  • Division of assets and debts
  • Child Support
  • Conflict over economic issues often continues long after legal divorce
Term
What is a Community Divorce?
Definition
Informing family, friends & communty about divorce
Term
What is a Parental Divorce?
Definition
  • Informing children of the change
  • Co-parents contiune to raise the children together
  • Court agreements between partners regarding legal responsibilities
Term
What is a Psychic Divorce?
Definition
  • Partners separate from each other emotionally
  • Goal: Respectful indifference
  • Go through "morning process"
  • Some people never go thrugh this stage
    • Pain, Anger, and Resentment Remain
Term
What is a Good Divorce?
Definition

Bi-nuclearr Family: two households, one family

  • Couples maintain that civility and co-parent
Term
What is a Plan Ahead?
Definition
Get to know each child individually
Term
What does the I-Model mean?
Definition
Biological parent delievers displine while new partner/ spouse supports & reinforces that choice
Term
What are traditions in a remarried family?
Definition
Maintain some & create new ones
Term
What does Eldercare mean?
Definition
Emotional support, health care service, and finanical assistance.
Term
What are 3 types of Short and Long terms for Eldercare?
Definition
  1. In home care (paid service)
  2. Assisted Living (nursing home)
  3. Informal Care ( family-spouse, children, and siblings)
Term
What is a Caregiver Stress?
Definition
  • While providing care can be positive & rewarding experience, caregivers have added demands & stress.
  • Strains time/ enegry
  • Complex decisions to make
  • Complicated care regimens to follow
  • Develop own health issues
    • Social isolation/ depression
Term
What is Elder Abuse?
Definition
Acts of aggression, humiliation, isolation, and finanical exploitation.
Term
What is Elder Negect?
Definition
Acts of omission and failure to care
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