Chapter 7 & 11 Flashcards

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Emerging Adulthoodd

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  • Period of the lifecourse between childhood and adulthood
  • Experimenting with and establishing adult roles, statuses and identities
  • Adulthood is an ambiguous milestone
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5 Transitions to Adulthood

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  1. Leaving home
  2. Finishing school
  3. Starting work
  4. Partnering
  5. Becoming a parent
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Percentage of women Baby Boomers at age 20 & 25 (single)

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62% & 23%

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Percentage of women Baby Boomers 20 & 25 (cohabiting)

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7 & 9

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Percentage of women Baby Boomers 20 & 25 (Married)

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30% & 67%

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Percentage of women Baby Boomers 20 & 25 (moved out)

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64% & 90%

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Percentage of women Baby Boomers 20 & 25 (out of school)

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51% & 71%

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Percentage of women Baby Boomers 20 & 25 (working)

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55% & 78%

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Percentage of women baby boomers 20 & 25 (parents)

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17% & 48%

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Percentage of Gen X women 20 & 25 (single)

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74% & 35%

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Percentage of Gen X women 20 & 25 (cohabiting)

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17% & 27%

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Percentage of Gen X women 20 & 25 (married)

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9% & 38%

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Percentage of Gen X women 20 & 25 (moved out)

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55% & 83%

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Percentage of Gen X women 20 & 25 (out of school)

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32% & 71%

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Percentage of Gen X women 20 & 25 (working)

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40% & 78%

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Percentage of Gen X women 20 & 25 (parent)

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11% & 33%

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17
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Percentage of millennial women 20 & 25 (single)

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77% & 62%

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Percentage of millennial women 20 & 25 (cohabiting)

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19% & 25%

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Percentage of millennial women 20 & 25 (married)

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3% & 12%

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Percentage of millennial women 20 & 25 (moved out)

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35% & 46%

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Percentage of millennial women 20 & 25 (out of school)

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36% & 65%

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Percentage of millennial women 20 & 25 (working)

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37% and 57%

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Percentage of millennial women 20 & 25 (parents)

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9% & 18%

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24
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Why adulthood has been pushed

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  • Lack of resource to marry
  • Lack of confidence in marriage
  • Parenthood often precedes marriage for disadvantaged young adults
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Benefits for economically-advantaged youth

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  • Longer education process

* Delayed marriage and parenthood brings more stable partnerships

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Pros of Later Adulthood

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  1. More educated and better prepared for the work force

2. More two-worker families and financial stability

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Cons of Later Adulthood

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  1. Shorter work life and lack of savings
  2. Working longer into the “troisieme age”
  3. Lower fertility and population aging
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Troisieme Age

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60-79

29
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Homeleaving and Returning

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*Significant milestone for both parents and children

30
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Dramatic Transformatons

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  1. Timing of home leaving
  2. Reasons for Home leaving
  3. Patterns of returning home
31
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Child Launching

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  • Usually measured as a physical move for at least four months
  • From the perspective of parents, child launching is a mid-life developmental phase
  • Often includes semi-autonomous living arrangements
32
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Types of Intergenerational c-residence

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  1. Home staying
  2. Mature co-residency
  3. Boomeranging
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Home Staying

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Remaining at home after age 19/20

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Mature co-residency

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Remaining at home after age 25

35
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Boomeranging

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Returning to the parental home after leaving

  • Rising since 70s
  • 1/3 Canadians aged 20-29 return home at least once
  • Parental blame
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Gender and homeleaving

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  • Women tend to leave home at an earlier age
  • Women tend to marry earlier or cohabit/become single parents earlier
  • Face higher levels of parental supervision while living at home
37
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Home environment and homeleaving

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living in “non-intact” households, facing family disruption increases later homeleaving

38
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The Feathered Nest

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High social capital and getting along with parents prevent homeleaving

39
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Socio-economic and homeleaving

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Socio-economic status matters less than the type of dwelling, number of siblings

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Race/ethnicity

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  • Immigrants more likely to live with their parents in their 20s
  • Some cultures encourage living with parents
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Employment and homeleaving

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Employed young adults with greater financial resources leave home earlier

42
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Place of Residence and home leaving

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Affects employment and educational opportunities

43
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Regional variation and homeleaving

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Adult children from major cities leave home later

Adult children from smaller cities leave home earlier

44
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Too Early Homeleaving (lifecourse perspective)

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Lower education, higher risk of poverty, homelessness, drug addiction and prostitution

45
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Too Late Homeleaving (lifecourse perspective)

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*Consequences for parents

Affect marriages, delay downsizing, affect retirement savings, strained parent/child relations

46
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Helicopter Parents

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Well-meaning but misguided parents providing excessive support

47
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Macro-economic factors Boomeranging

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  • Delayed marriage and increased cohabitation
  • Increased need for post-secondary attendance
  • Low starting salaries, expensive housing, fewer career job, high student loan debt
48
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Linked Lives

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Home leaving and returning affect mid-life parental experiences and parent-child relations

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Intergenerational Relations

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  • Roles and responsibilities of mid-life and aging parents have changed.
  • Assumptions of family dysfunction and individual pathology
  • Media portrayals of “adultescents” as lazy or greedy
  • Majority of parents and children report satisfaction
  • Mutual interdependence and reciprocity
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Roles of Responsibilities of mid-life and aging parents have changed

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  • Less predictable, more complex
  • Can be particularly challenging for mothers
  • Extended socialization
  • Can either strengthen or weaken intergenerational solidarity
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Cons for parents for intergenerational relations

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  • lack of privacy and independence
  • desire for intimacy at a distance
  • Multiple returns home can have a negative effect on parental marriages
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Cons for children for intergenerational relations

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Lack of privacy, conflict and stress, parental rules, feeling dependent

53
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Arranged Marriage

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Involves an intermediary and occurs when families play a pivotal role in the choice of one’s marital partner

54
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Consensual non-monogamy

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Describes intimate romantic relationships that are negotiated between two or more people and that are either sexually or emotionally exclusive or both

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Endogamy

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Is the tendency to date and marry within one’s social group or social class, race, religion or language group

56
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Family of Procreation

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Refers to the family that we form when we mature, apart from our family of origin or the family that we are born into

57
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Fertility rate

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An estimate of the average number of children that women will have in their lifetime

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First demographic transition

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The shift from high mortality and fertility levels to low mortality and fertility levels that began around 1870 and lasted until about 1965

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Hegemonic motherhood

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refers to social discourse that creates the perception that women are, by nature, maternal and that they desire children

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Homohamy

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refers to a non-random approach of selecting mates or spouses who have similar physical, intellectual, personality, and social class traits

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LAT relationships

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are defined as those partners, who are neither married nor living common law, but who are in an intimate committed couple relationship yet living apart together

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Marriage gradient

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Is women’s tendency to marry up with regards to age, education, occupation and even height

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Multiple- partner fertility

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A trend that is on the rise, refers to having biological children with more than one partner

64
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Empty nest syndrome

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Refers to the grief that many parents feel when their children move out of the home, and is more common in women since they are more likely to have had the role of primary caregiver

65
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semi-autonomous living arrangements

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occur when young adults physically leave the parental home, but continue to live in family-like settings and draw upon parental resources

66
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social capital

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is a non-tangible resource that inheres in the quality of relationships. It can be found in strong, supportive families or other social networks and facilitates certain goals or objectives