Chapter 11 Families Flashcards
Second Shift
The work that greets us when we come home from paid work.
Ideology of intensive motherhood
The idea that (1) childrearing should include “copious amounts of time, energy, and material resources”;(2) giving children these things takes priority over all other interests, desires, and demands; and (3) it should be mothers who do this work.
Concerted cultivation
An active and organized effort to develop in children a wide range of skills and talents
Specialization
Splitting unpaid and paid work so that each partner does more of one than the other instead of sharing
Sharing
doing more or less symmetrical amounts of paid and unpaid work
Traditionalists
People that believe in the 1950’s breadwinner/homemaker model
Believe men should be responsible for earning income and women should be responsible for housework and childcare
Neo-traditionalists
A modified version of the breadwinner/homemaker marriage is the breadwinner/super spouse marriage. One in which breadwinners focus on work and their spouse both works and takes care of the home.
Egalitarians
Preferring relationships in which both partners do their fair share of breadwinning, housekeeping, and childrearing.
Domestic Outsourcing
Paying nonfamily members to do family-related tasks
Care chain
A series of un-nurturing relationships in which the care of children, the disabled, or the elderly, is displaced onto the increasingly disadvantaged paid or unpaid carers
Greedy institutions
Ones that take up an incredible amount of time and energy
Working poor
Individuals who work but still live in poverty
Feminization of poverty
A trend in which the poor are increasingly women and, of course, their children, too.
Dual nurturers
Turn away from work and toward the home to focus together on the housework and childcare
Othermothers
Women in the neighborhood who act as a substitute mothers out of inclination or kindness.
