Families in Canada-Unit Test 1 Flashcards
Prenatal Development
10 months
Three stages; germinal, embryonic
fetal
Infancy Development
From birth to 2 years
- Motor skills development
Toddlerhood Development
1 to years of age
- socio-emotional development
- Cognitive development
Divorce Act
1967
- federally governed
- women were only allowed to file for divorce
1968
- must be separated for 3 years to file for divorce
1985
- separation for 1 year
- had to be proven to; be adultery, physical abuse, mental abuse,
- law changed from 3 years of separate to 1
- had to
Empty Nester
Middle Age
- The couple renews their relationship and prepared for retirement if they had children who had left home
- now children are coming back home, which is a problem
Launching
Stage 3
- children gradually start to leave home to support themselves
- Parents help their children to adapt to life on their own
Open/ Close Adoption
Open
- adoptive parents and the birth mother and father know each other and exchange identifying information
Closed
- an infant is adopted by another family, and the seconds of the biological parents are kept sealed
Customary Care
A type of Fostering but the family is Indigenous, so they will not lose their culture and background
Kinship Care
Type of Fostering where the child goes to a relative to stay with (could be by marriage or blood)
Fostering
When a parent is unable to take care of their child either cause of substance abuse or physical, children are put into home temporarily until the parent become stable
Childfree
When a family (of two spouses) does not/can not have children
Common Law
A couple living together who are not married for a least 3 years
- changes if there is a biological child, then 1 year
Nuclear/ Incat family
A family with a mother and father and at least one child
Million dollar family would have a father, mother, older son, and younger daughter
The 5 Human Growth and Development
Physically
Socially
Emotionally
Morally
Intellectually
What is Physically Development?
Height, weight, bones, Ear, Body devoplemnt
What is Socially Development?
Freinds, Family, Media
What is Emotionally Development?
Perderity, Lifes change, women’s cycle
What is Morally Development?
-Understand the right or wrong way
- Developed and pursued
What is Intellectually Development?
Book smart, street smart
Census Family
- A married couple and children, if any of either and/ or children
- common law
- single/lone family
- common law with child
- grandparents acting as parents
- adopted child with family
Functional Requisites
society requires certain basic function to survive
- indivualds function as small families that are part of a community call society
Affective Nurturance
Families in which the relationship between husband and wife is based on love, and in which parents expect to love and be loved by their children.
Pre-Industrial Families
-families start to get smaller in size
- began in the 17th century
- rapid population growth
- people started to work outside of the home
- common technology began (house and buggy, etc)
Urban Industrial Families
- work was found outside the home, and workers started to work with non-family members
- child labour laws were passed
- women stayed at home and took care of the house
- compulsory education
- after WW2, women start to work outside the house but were paid less
- families became even smaller
- with both partners making money, there was more money to spend
- people delayed marriage and having children to become stable