Section FSW261 B
Final Exam Study Guide
Chapters 10-17
Tuesday, May 1st @ 12:30pm
1. Describe the transition to parenthood using Rossis criteria
Little experience in child care
New parents assume 24 hour care
Caring for fragile infant
Baby interrupt sleep, work, leisure
May be distant from Family, for help
Stress & Less time as a couple
Disconnect from friends after baby arrives
2. Describe positive forms of parental control
Warm, firm and fair
Combining emotional nurturing and support, with conscientious parental direction
Not excessive control and considers childs wishes
Supports efforts, monitors childs activities, and gives appropriate consequences for childrens behavior
Timeout, taking away privileges, stating expectations
3. Name and describe psychologists Diana Baumrinds three parenting styles
Experts Advise Authoritative Parenting
Parenting Style: a general manner of relating to and disciplining children
Authoritarian Parenting Style
o Low on emotional warmth and nurturing
o High on parental direction and control
o More likely to spank children or use otherwise harsh punishment
Permissive Parenting Style
o Low on parental direction or control
o High on emotional nurturing
o Characterized as indulgent and leading to a a spoiled child
o Emotional neglectlow on both parental direction and emotional support
Authoritative Parenting Style
o Positive Parenting
o Warm, firm, and fair
o Combines emotional nurturing and support with conscientious parental direction
o Children do better in school and are socially competent.
4. Define spanking
Spanking refers to hitting a child with an open hand without causing physical injury.
5. What percentage of the homeless population are children
25%, 1/4, 1.5 Million
6. List the four factors of good parenting
Supportive family communication
Involvement in a childs life and school
Adequate economic resources
Support from Family & Friends
7. Earnings of women as compared to men, in 2008
88%
8. Define househusband
Men who stay home to care for the house and family while their wives work.
9. Define second shift
Unpaid family work that amounts to an extra month of work each year.
10. List American Academy of Pediatrics guidelines for quality child care
Stable staff
Well trained staff
Cultural sensitivity
Other staff qualities- warm personality
Low child to staff ratio
Age appropriate attention
A stimulating environment
Discipline
A relationship with the parents
Practical and financial considerations
Recommendations from other parents
Visits
Accreditation
11. Define family leave
Involves an employee being able to take an extended period of time from work, either paid or unpaid, for
the purpose of caring for a newborn, adopted, or seriously ill child; for an elderly parent; or for their own
health needs, with the guarantee of a job upon returning. Up to 12 weeks.
12. How does housework play into marital satisfaction
Gender Strategy: A way of working through everyday situations that takes into account an individuals
beliefs and deep feelings about gender roles, as well as his/her employment commitments.
Sharing housework equally provides greater marital satisfaction
Women come to share the provider role, Men take greater responsibility for household work.
13. List Branden and Sternbergs rules for nourishing a romantically loving relationship
1. Share more about yourself with your partner than you do with any other person.
2. Make time to be alone together.
3. Do not take your relationship for granted.
Express your love verbally, Be physically affectionate, Express appreciation and admiration, Offer
emotional support, Express your love materially, & Accept your partners demands and put up with their
short comings
14. Define Gottmans Four Horseman of the Apocalypse
- Research identified predictors of divorce:
Contempt: feeling that one spouse is inferior or undesirable
Criticism: making disapproving judgments or evaluations of ones partner
Defensiveness: preparing to defends oneself, when you feel you are being attacked
Stonewalling: resistance or refusing to take a partners complaints seriously
o Belligerence
15. List the forms of passive-aggressive communication in a marriage
Chronic Criticism
Nagging
Nitpicking
Sarcasm
Possibly Procrastination
16. What does Deborah Tannen call the type of conversation MEN typically engage in
Report Talk (convey information)
(WOMEN engage in Rapport Talk AKA Emotional)
17. Define the female-demand/male-withdraw pattern
A cycle of negative verbal expression by one partner, followed by the other partners withdrawal in the face
of the others demands.
18. What are the six sources of power listed in the text
1. Coercive Power
2. Reward Power
3. Expert Power
4. Informational Power
5. Power
6. Referent Legitimate Power
19. What is the intention of intimate partner violence
Power and Control (Attempting to compensate for general feelings of powerlessness or inadequacy.)
20. Define incest
Sexual relations between closely related individuals.
21. List some examples of intimate partner violence
Name calling, stalking, threatening, intimidation, keeping partner from contacting others, withholding
money, & not letting their partner have a job.
Marital Rape, Intimate Terrorism, Physical, Emotional, Economic, and Child Abuse
22. Define family stress and give some examples
State of tension that arises when demands tax a familys resources.
Financial Hardships, job-loss,
23. What is the texts definition of crisis
A situation in which the usual behavior patterns are ineffective and the new ones are called for immediately
Relative Instability and Turning point either positive or negative always involving change.
24. List some stressors unique to low-income families
Food, jobs, limited resources, transportation, safety
25. List the of substance abuse on families
Stealing, poor family participation, job-loss, poor communication, risky health problems, and children
develop interruption
26. The term crisis comes from the Greek word for what
Decision (Judgment)
27. List infant problems associated with mothers drug abuse during pregnancy
Birth defects, HIV/AIDS, Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, low birth weight, babies born addicted, learning
disabilities
28. How many first marriages are likely to end in divorce
40-50%
29. Define no-fault divorce
Divorce in which the dissolution of the marriage does not require a showing of wrong doing by either
partner
30. List types of divorce
Emotional, legal, no-fault, & community (Re-establish friends)
31. How many divorces involve children
A little more than half
32. Define covenant marriage
An alternative to standard marriage, that couples may select at the time of marriage or later, essentially a
return to fault-based divorce, because it makes it so you have to prove fault, or live apart before you can
divorce--- how divorce used to be
33. Define Ahrons post-divorce types of relationships
Perfect-pals- do things together, spend holidays together
Cooperative colleagues- work as co-parents, but dont make an effort to do things together
Angry associates- work together a little, dont get alone
Fiery foes hate each other, use children to get back at one another
34. What is the relationship between cohabitation and step-families
More step-families are starting to form because of cohabitation, not because of re-marriage
35. In what way do women generally benefit more than men when remarrying
More housework but high financially benefit
36. List areas where remarrieds generally experience more tension that first marrieds
Step children some into relationship
Finances- Child Support/ Divorce
37. Why does Cherlin call the remarried family an incomplete institution
Face problems of ambiguity from previous relationships
38. What are the usual legal obligations of step-parents to their step-children
No legal responsibility, unless they go to court and adopt children
39. List and define Papernows seven stage model of stepfamily development
Fantasy
Immersion
Awareness
Mobilization
Action
Contact
Resolution
40. Why are older men more likely to be living with their spouse than older women
Men die younger with life-expectancy & Women die older
41. What percentage of older adults live in poverty
10%
42. Define the double standard of aging
When it is okay for men to marry younger women, but not okay for women to marry younger men
43. Define the styles of grandparenting
Remote- distant & far away
Companionate- involved in work, leisure, or social activities
Involved- usually live with grandchildren, babysitting, and have control over grandchildren
44. Do grandparents have the right to seek legalized visitation with their grandchildren
Yes, True- Can seek legal visitation
45. Define the sandwich generation
Middle-aged individuals, usually women, between the responsibilities of caring for their dependent
children and their aging parents.
46. List the causes of elder abuse
Overwhelmed by requirements of caring for elderly family members
Stressed by socially structured conditions
47. List Cancian and Olikers strategies for moving our society toward better elder care
Provide government funds that support more care outside of the family
Increase social recognition of care giving of both paid and unpaid as productive and valuable work
Make care giving more economically rewarding, or at least less economically costly to caregivers
48. Parent adult child relations
Tight-knit
Obligatory
Sociable
Detached
Intimate But Distant