Chapter 6 Flashcards
What is common-law marriage?
A system of customary marriage by which people who present themselves as spouses and fulfil certain criteria (established provincially) are entitled to legal recognition and, increasingly, all of the rights and responsibilities of legally wedded spouses
What is the Divorce Act?
Federal legislation was introduced in 1968, and revised in 1985, governing the provision of divorce in Canada.
What is emotion work?
The work is performed to maintain emotional ties and harmony, produce comfort and ease in family members, and generally make the family a “haven in a heartless world.” The difference between emotional labour and emotional work is that the former is part of an employment relationship. In contrast, emotional work (sometimes called emotional work) is performed in the private sphere.
What is gender complementarity?
The idea is that men and women have distinct talents, characters, roles, and spheres of influence that are not ranked hierarchically (that is, in a system of male dominance).
What is homophily?
The tendency to bond with individuals like oneself, particularly, for purposes of this text, in terms of sex, gender, and sexual orientation.
What is the Indian Act?
Federal legislation of 1876, revised periodically since then, governs and defines registered “Indians” (First Nations) and their reserves.
What is intensive mothering?
According to Sharon Hays, a set of mothering ideals and behaviours that emphasize the mother’s primary responsibility for the child; the desirability of full-time mothering; the undesirability of maternal employment and non-maternal care; and the mother’s intense and focused attention to her children’s needs and well-being.
What is Low-Income Cut off (LICO)?
A boundary established by Statistics Canada that serves as Canada’s unofficial measure of poverty. Statistics Canada establishes several LICOs based on family size and size of the community of residence
What is marriage premium?
The additional health, well-being, and economic benefits supposedly enjoyed by married people relative to the unmarried.
What is matrilocal?
Determining residence by female kinship rather than by male; therefore, a married couple would reside with the woman’s family rather than the man’s.
What is New Woman?
A feminine ideal that emerged at the end of the nineteenth century along with feminist activism and theory. The New Woman would be independent, educated, and assertive. By the early twentieth century, commentators were concerned about the New Woman as a symbol of societal decline.
What are nuclear families?
A twentieth-century term describes a family structure or household composed of a couple and their children. While it is a common historical form, particularly in Western Europe, it has never been universal.
What is Parental Alienation Syndrome (PAS)?
A highly controversial term originating in the 1980s to describe a post-divorce situation in which one parent (usually the mother) manipulates a child so that the child unreasonably shuns the other parent (usually the father) or even makes false accusations of maltreatment.
What is quality child care?
Care that provides trained, skilled, and/or certified staff; warm and healthy interactions between caregivers and children; stimulating environments with toys and materials appropriate for the age of the children being cared for; few children per caregiver; and proper observance of health and safety provisions.
What is race suicide?
A late nineteenth-century/early twentieth-century concept that argued, based on evolutionary theory, that the “white race” was in decline; a particular cause, proponents argued, was the declining birth rate among middle-and upper-class white women and the “rampant” fertility of poor whites and racial “others.”
