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| lack of affordable housing, increase in poverty, deinstitutionalization of the mentally ill, budget cuts in welfare, inflation, racism/sexism |
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| family violence, unemployment and low earnings, adolescent runaways, substance abuse, natural catastrophes |
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| those who already live on the streets |
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| those in danger of losing their homes are living with friends or relatives |
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| homless families w/ children |
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| homless families left minor children in someone else's care for extended periods |
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| Kids expected in MKE Homeless Shleters |
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| Inrecreasing (98:4797. 99:6016, 00:7063) |
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| Instituionalization of Homelessness |
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| 87 McKinney Act: Federally subsidizes shelters, which means homelessness is not seen as kind of emergency situation. Instituinalization of 'homeless industry' of sorts: jobs for service workers, technological advances. |
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| Welfare encourages women to have children |
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| at least 5-10% of homless are emplyed fulltime, 10-20% are working part time. Many homeless women try to use welfare to escape. |
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| Functional analysis - Baby Love |
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| seem to serve mothers beyond 'someone to socialize' |
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| any instances of power and domination b/w family memebers b/w teens and parents |
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| Construction of teen pregnancy in 40s and 50s |
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| Atleast 2xs higher in 40s and 50s than today, also it was married teen pregnancy |
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| Construction of teen pregnancy in Babyboom era |
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| Women married young and had more kids closer together |
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| Number of births to teens |
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| Declined since 1970, rates of pregnancy and childbirth for single teenage parents has increased. 80-90% of teen births are to single teens |
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| >25%, teen pregnancy has been decreasing over the past several years |
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| Nonmarital births increasing with who? |
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| increasing among women 20 and older |
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| Teen pregnancy considered a problem |
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| Highly associated with poverty |
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| low academic skills, high unemployment rates, low or unrealistic asipirations, low self-efficacy, most are high school dropouts (black teens more likely to continue), Many go on welfare and viewed as burden to taxpayers |
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| Significance to mate selection |
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| often compatible with consumerist model |
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| societal contributors to mate selection |
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| class, gender, race, age, religion, sexuality, [education, family and peer pressure, appearance] |
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| much more communal interpretation of love, extends outside of the couple, a pair is predestined by a High Being, pair is guided towards one another by an official pairing by family members. |
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| mix of individualist love and communal love, two people do select their own partners, family has much of a central role than in the mainstream 'nuclear family'. Families in econmic trouble live w/ one another, lend each other money, care for each other[s kids] |
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| Increased Acceptance of Cohabitation |
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| Economic and Education considerations |
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| Should reach certain financial and career goals before marriage, believe in utility of marriage only as it concerns prosperity and inheritance, level of education influence ones desire to get married/ how long one waits to get married |
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| Comparing cohabitators in married and single women |
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| Cohabitating women are more similar to married women than single women. Cohabitating have more sex than married. Cohabitating are less likely to have children than marrie dcouples, more likely than single couples, differ in terms of division of household and in hours in the workplace |
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| What leads cohabitators to marry? |
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| pregnancy, pressure from their parents to marry, economic contribution of two incomes-two incomes can reduce poverty by 30% |
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| Cohabitator Marriage is more likely to end in a break-up |
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| quality of pairings are often different than in case of marriages, normative consensus favoring marriage, differece of attitudes of cohabitators vs married people |
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| Why is marraiges preceed by co-habitators more likely to end up in separation? |
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| liberal attitudes about marriage, negative attitudes about marriage, childhood family characteristics |
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| Elements of what makes a good marriage? |
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| satisfaction, expectations, equity, commitment, sexual access and exclusivity, being a couple |
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