Exam 3 readings

Question 1

Divorce seems to have what kinds of effects on children, across a wide range of domains?

Answer 1

Negative, weak in magnitude however

Question 2

Parental absence perspective

Answer 2

People generally feel that two parents living and working together can do the job better than just one. Study compared children from intact families to those which had experienced a parental death. Their results showed that children from divorced families had even lower well-being than ones with death. Lack of resources

Question 3

Economic disadvantage perspective

Answer 3

divorce commonly results in poorer economic conditions for children. A custodial mother’s standard of living decreases 30% after divorce, many below the poverty line. Lower standard of living following divorce has stronger effects on children’s academic achievements, because of reduced access to resources such as good schools, books, and computers.

Question 4

family conflict perspective

Answer 4

children from high conflict intact families have more adjustment problems than children from divorced families

Question 5

sleeper effect

Answer 5

children witnessing divorce effects them as adults

Question 6

parentification

Answer 6

a sort of role reversal where children assume responsibilities for household tasks and the care of siblings (instrumental parentification) in addition to acting as a confidant and provider of emotional support to the parent

Question 7

intergenerational transmission of divorce

Answer 7

increased risk for marital distress and divorce. We learn by modeling

Question 8

There is clear evidence that negative attitudes toward the permanence of marriage…

Answer 8

can explain the intergenerational transmission of divorce

Question 9

research suggests that children whose parents have divorced…

Answer 9

have higher levels of externalizing behaviors and

internalizing problems

Question 10

divorce-prone personality hypothesis

Answer 10

personalities that lead to divorce

Question 11

willingness to leave marriage hypothesis

Answer 11

people who divorce have an obvious track record for seeing divorce as an option

Question 12

dysfunctional beliefs hypothesis

Answer 12

certainty that people think they learned from past mistakes

Question 13

Stepfamily typologies

Answer 13

p. 278

Question 14

couple narrative style

Answer 14

disengaged, conflictual/disruptive, conflictual/contained, cooperative, collaborative

Question 15

grandparental relationships

Answer 15

different in different cultures

Question 16

family life cycle

Answer 16

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