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In the face of a crisis, family members may be numbed by the new or sudden stress and, in a process of denial, go about their buisness as if the event have not occured. Gradually, however, they begin to assimilate the reality of the crisis to apraise the situation then the text points out the, the period of ____ sets in.
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family disorganization
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Withdrawing from friends and kin ____ a family's ability to meet a crisis.
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weakens
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During the period of disorganization, family members face the decision of whether to express or to smother any ______ they may have.
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angry feelings
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Some families do not recover from crisis intact, as today's _______ illustrates.
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divorce rate
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The text categorizes a family's crisis-meeting resources into three types. What are they?
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Personal/individual, family, community
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As one source of crisis-meeting skills, each family or family system has a level of resources, including bonds of trust, appreciation, and support, called ______.
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family harmony
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A study of alcoholic families found that adult children of alcoholics who came from families that ________ were less likely to become alcoholics themselves.
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maintained family dinner
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Some families are vulnerable, and are more prone to poor adjustment from crisis provoking events. What are the qualities of a vulnerable family?
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Lower sense of common purpose, feel less in control of what happens to them
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The Bradford family copes very well with stress, emphasizing mutual acceptance, respecct, and shared values. Given this information, the Bradford family can be characterized as:
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resilient
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What are the facttors mentioned in the text for meeting a crisis creatively?
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positive outlook, spiritual values and support groups, open supportive communication, adatablity, community resources
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Families whose members choose to be _______ in roles and leadership meet crises creatively.
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flexible
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The typical American family is under a _______ level of stress at all times.
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high
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Emerging developmental theories of childhood well0being provided support to a presumption taht when divorce occurs, mother custody was always in the child's best interest. This point of view came to be known as the so-called "_____" doctrine.
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tender years
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There are more than _______ noncustodial mothers, concentrated in the twenty-five to forty-five age range and lower to middle-class economic level.
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2 million
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What percentage of noncustodial fathers have at least weekly contact with their children?
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35%-40%
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In the _____ custody variation in joint custody agreements, both parents have the right to participate in important decisions and retain a symbolically important legal authority, with physical custody (that is, residential care of the child) going to just one parent.
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joint legal
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A review of 33 studies of joint and sole custody foind that:
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children in joint custody agreements had superior adjustment
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The poverty rate of single custodial mothers ______ between 1993 and 2005; it remains higher than that of custodial fathers.
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dropped significantly
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Sociologist Catherine Ross compared levels of psychological distress for men and women in four different categories. What are these?
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Marrieds, cohabitors, those dating, those with no partners
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On average, in comparison with their counterparts from stable households, adult children of divorced parents:
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are in contact less with their parents
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What options requires spouses spouses to prove fault or live apart for certain length of time in order to obtain a divorce?
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covenant marriage
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When only a "fault" divorce statute was available, in which state was adultery the only practicable grounds for divorce?
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New York
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What are the types of post-divorce relationships identified by Ahorns?
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Perfect pals, cooperative colleaques, angry associates, or fiery foes
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What are Melinda Blau's general guidelines for co-parents?
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heal yourself, act maturely, listen to your children, respect each other, divide parenting time, accept each other's differences, communicate directly, step out of traditional gender roles, recognize and accept change, know co-parenting is forever
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The good divorce does not end a family but instead produces a _____ two households, one family.
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divorce-extended faimly
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Another challenge to remarried families is that roles of step child and stepparent are _____.
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not well defined
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Legally, the stepparent is a ______ with no prescribed rights or duties.
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non-parent
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White and Booth found that, in comparison with teens in intact families, older teenage and young adult children in stepfamilies leave home:
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at significantly lower ages
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