Discovering Problemc In The Family Flashcards
The personal family
Personal definitions acknowledge emotional bond importance
The legal family
• Official definition determines enforceable rights and obligations
• U.S. Census: “A group of two or more persons related by blood, marriage, adoption, and residing together in a household.”
Private versus public views of families
• Families provide us emotional support, instrumental support, a sense of belonging no attachment
• Families also fulfill societal needs of raising children responsibly, providing elder care, contributing to the economy, regulating reproduction
• Family is a social construction - perhaps the most important social structure
The three ways to think about social problems as they pertain to families
- the type of family as the problem
- examining families as social problem settings
- looks at effects of social problems on families (things not specific on families like; poverty, mass incarceration)
How are social constructions of families a problem
- ideas about what makes “good” families come from share understandings
- these can change
The kinds of cultural charts in marital expectations
• marriage as an economic arrangement
• Love as recent marital expectations
• What trade personally fulfilling marriages possible
• Personally fulfilling relationships are more precarious
• Increases varieties of living
• Various contemporary U.S. family forms
Family structure
People who compose a family and their relationship is to one another
Nuclear family
Two married parents living with their children
Multigenerational family
3+ generations living together
Other kinds of families
Polygamous families, stepfamilies, blended families, single-parent families, cohabitating families, grandparent-headed families
What is marriage decline and what does it include
A significant decline in marriage rates
Why: cultural significance of marriage has changed, acceptable alternatives
Who: concentrated on disadvantaged groups
How has same-sex marriage changed over the years
Sam-sex marriage increase over the past decades
◦ Massachusetts first state to recognized Sam-sex
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Divorce
U.S. divorce rate peaked in 1980s, now lowest in decades
• Why: higher standards for marriage, alternatives
• Who: concentrated among disadvantaged groups
Cohabitation
Unmarried but sexually/romantically involved people living together
Why: practical/financial reasons, proving the ground for the relationship
Who: everyone
Intensive mothering ideology standards:
- being child centered
- be constantly emotionally accessible to children
- continuously observe/respond to children’s psychological states
- provide endless enriching child-centered activities
- be deeply invested in the child’s intellectual growth
Stratified reproduction
Stratified reproduction: It values some women’s fertility over others. The scrutiny for mothers with disabilities; teen mothers seen a
Child marriage
• most U.S. states permit child marriage under certain conditions
• Child marriage as a social problem:
◦ -> increased rates of dropping out of school, early pregnancy, domestic violence, physical/mental health problems
◦ The children lack legal status, cannot access protections
Child maltreatment
• child abuse or neglect: at a minimum, any recent act or failure to act on the part of a parent or caretaker, which results in death, serious physical or emotional harm, sexual abuse or exploitation, or an act or failure to act which presents an imminent risk of serious harm.
◦ Estimates in arcade because of underreporting
◦ Neglect is the most common form of child abuse
Intimate partner violence and coercion
• Intimate partner violence is note restricted to physical/sexual violence
◦ Coercive threats, economic abuse, isolation, emotional abuse, stalking
◦ Intimate terrorism V. Situational couple violence
• What survivors of intimate partner violence experience
• The causes of IPV per family sociologists
• Social movement and organizations focus on both intervention and prevention
What is the power and control wheel
Is describes the many forms that intimate partner violence takes on
Elder abuse and some risks
Elder abuse: physical, emotional, or sexual maltreatment of older adult
- happens within family or institutional settings
Risk factors: social isolation, physically vulnerable (poor, health, dementia)
Sandwich generation
Middle-age people tending to children and aging parents
Second shift
Additional unpaid work employed women perform
Work-family conflict
When employees are unable to meet work demands due to caregiving obligations and vice versa
- the U.S. offers little support to manage work-family conflicts
Poverty’s effects on families
• Extreme poverty: surviving on less than $2/day per person
• Poverty matters for families:
◦ Increases parental stress
◦ Affects housing and housing stability
• Housing vouchers are a possible solution
