Exam 3 Flashcards
About ___ amount of children have experienced the incarceration of a residential parent at some point
5 million
What happens when a report is screened in?
- CPS caseworkers, often called investigators or assessment workers, respond within a particular time period
- They may speak with the parents and other people in contact with the child such as doctors, teachers, or child care providers
- They also may speak with the child, alone or in presence of caregivers, depending on the child’s age and level of risk
Economic stress can be
normative
non-normative (situational)
What is normative?
expected milestones: marriage, birth, retirement
What is non-normative?
short term job loss
long term job loss or disability
What is Financial strain
- how individuals perceive their financial insecurity
- worries and pressures
economic conditions in the American family
many American families are struggling
Net worth
higher net worth= greater financial security
There is an alarming disparity between ___ and ___
low income net worth and wealthy households
What is the racial/ethnic disparity
Caucasian: households had median net worth of $142,000 vs. non-White or Hispanic households with $18,000
Home ownership
the 2007 burst in the housing bubble left 1 in 4 homeowners with more debt on their house than it was worth
What is income
what people earn
What is wealth
the value of everything a person or family owns, minus any debts
The family economic stress model
predicts that economic hardship will lead to child and family outcomes through adverse changes in mental health, relationship quality and parenting
Enduring Characteristics for when a spouse is ill
- age
- ill spouses perceive higher relationship quality than well spouses
- gender is a factor
- SES, religiosity, social support impact the link between illness and adaptive processes
