Family

Question 1

what do successful family’s do?

Answer 1

provide emotional support for family members and take care of elders and the next generation

Question 2

nuclear family

Answer 2

a parent or parents and children

Question 3

extended family

Answer 3

includes parents, children, grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins

Question 4

simple households

Answer 4

related or unrelated adults with or without children

Question 5

complex household

Answer 5

two or more adults who are related but not married to each other and hence could reasonably be expected to live separately

Question 6

census family

Answer 6

a same sex or opposite sex couple, married or common-law, living together, with or without the child or children, if any, of either or both spouses

or

a lone parent (single, separated, married or divorced) living together with a least one child

or

grandparent living together with their grandchild(ren)

Question 7

simple stepfamily

Answer 7

couple family in which at least one child is the biological or adopted child of one parent

Question 8

complex stepfamilies

Answer 8

couple family in which there is at least one child of both parents and at least one child of only one parent

Question 9

what are the 9 changes in the Canadian family?

Answer 9

1. the marriage rate is decreasing while the cohabitation rate is rising
2. the age of first marriage is rising
3. more overall divorces, but the rate is falling
4. more women are having children in their thirties
5. the number of children per family has dropped below the “replacement rate”
6. there is nearly as many couples without children as with
7. children are leaving home at a later age
8. there are more lone parent families
9. there are more people living alone

Question 10

what is crude marriage rate?

Answer 10

the number of marriages that occur in a given year per 1,000 people per population

Question 11

fecundity

Answer 11

the physical ability to conceive

Question 12

total fertility rate

Answer 12

an estimate of the average number of children that a cohort of women between the ages of 15 and 49 will have in their lifetime

Question 13

replacement rate

Answer 13

the number of children that the average women must bear if the overall population is to continue at the same level

Question 14

cluttered nest

Answer 14

describes when adult children continue to live at home with their parents

Question 15

what are the reasons for a cluttered nest?

Answer 15

-prolonged education
-“boomerang kids” who returned home after getting post-secondary education
-cost of living
-later age at marriage

Question 16

empty nest

Answer 16

describes a household in which children have moved out to live on their own

Question 17

why do critics need to be cautious about their perceptions of lone-parent families?

Answer 17

-most start as 2 parent households
-there are planned lone parent households
-adoption and fertility technology allow for lone parents by choice

Question 18

conjugal (or marital) roles

Answer 18

the distinctive roles of the husband and wife that result from the division of labour within the family

Question 19

bott hypothesis

Answer 19

Elizabeth Bott characterized conjugal roles as segregated and joint

Question 20

what does the segregated conjugal role mean?

Answer 20

tasks, interests and activities are clearly different

Question 21

what does the joint conjugal role mean?

Answer 21

many tasks, interests and activities are shared

Question 22

what does Beaujot (2000) argue?

Answer 22

that we moved from complementary to companionate relationships

Question 23

complementary roles

Answer 23

(Botts segregated roles)
men are primarily breadwinners and women are unpaid work of childcare and housework

Question 24

companionate roles

Answer 24

(Botts joint roles)
breadwinning and caretaking roles overlap

Question 25

what has created an imbalance is conjugal roles?

Answer 25

married women with young children still do more unpaid work at home then married men, even when they both have paid jobs

Question 26

what is a "double burden" or "second shift"?

Answer 26

when both partners have paid jobs but the women still does more of the unpaid work at home

Question 27

what does double ghetto describe?

Answer 27

the marginalization of working women experience inside and outside the home

Question 28

according to Nakhaie (1995) what is the key to correcting gender imbalances?

Answer 28

Arlie Hochschild's gender strategy

Question 29

what is gender strategy?

Answer 29

the plan of action through which a person tried to solve problems at hand, given cultural notions of gender at play

Question 30

what do child care responsibilities encourage?

Answer 30

occupational segregation

Question 31

what is occupational segregation?

Answer 31

women choosing jobs that have flexibility in terms of childcare-related work

Question 32

what is GBV?

Answer 32

Gender based Violence

Question 33

what is a form of GBV?

Answer 33

family violence

Question 34

family violence

Answer 34

includes abuse of children, youth, elderly persons, disabled persons or a partner in a family grouping. Can take forms of intimidation, deprivation and/or financial exploitation as well as emotional, sexual and spiritual abuse and physical assault

Question 35

IPV

Answer 35

Intimate Partner Violence

Question 36

IPV is most prevalent for who?

Answer 36

Indigenous women

Question 37

what are the 4 family violence theories?

Answer 37

1. family violence theories 2. feminist theories 3. gender theories 4. psychological theories

Question 38

family violence theories

Answer 38

people act violently/abusively because of the intensity of their relationships in families. Violence/abuse become normalized and transmitted intergenerationally

Question 39

feminist theories

Answer 39

people act violently/abusively in order to gain and maintain power and control

Question 40

gender theories

Answer 40

the social construction of gender, for example, hegemonic masculinity, contributes to violence in families

Question 41

psychological theories

Answer 41

attachment problems, psychopathy, borderline personality disorder, anxiety sensitivity, etc. are associated with violence in families

Question 42

what are some of the consequences of family violence?

Answer 42

-exposure leads to children internalizing and externalizing behaviours -both victims and perpetrators experience numerous physical and mental health impacts such as acute injuries, chronic pain, depression and PTSD

Question 43

what are most murders of women and girls in Canada?

Answer 43

domestic homicides