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