Final Flashcards
Define divorce.
The legal dissolution of a marriage.
What are the three legal ground for ducked according to the Divorce Act?
- Cruelty
- Adultery
- Being separated for one year
What social factors increase the likelihood of divorce?
- Marrying before age 20
- Having a lower socioeconomic status
- Cohabitating before marriage
- Your parents divorced
What is a transitional state?
Divorce produced a state of temporary imbalance resulting from changes in relationships, routines, assumptions, and roles. This usually lasts between 1-3 years.
What are the protective factors for children during divorce?
- Effective parenting by both parents
- Social support form extended family, friends, and institutions
Why does each parent need to establish a relationship with the child by themselves after a divorce?
If there is no clear understanding of new rules of the relationship, the child is likely to become a victim of conflicts between the parents.
What are the stressor factors for children during divorce?
- The actual separation
- Poorer quality of parenting during and after divorce
- Loss of important relationships
- Financial hardships
- Conflict between parents before and after separation
True or False?
For many children, emotional adjustments take up to two years?
True!
True or False?
Some children in divorced families score higher than those is non-divorced families on various indices such as academic success and emotional and behavioural adjustment.
False!
Define custody.
The term used to describe where children live, and who makes decisions for or about them.
Define sole custody.
One parent alone has custody.
Define shared custody.
Both parents have joint custody and each spends at least 40% of time with child (binuclear family).
Define a “bird’s nest arrangement.”
The children stay in the house, and their separated or divorced parents come to them.
Define split custody.
One parent has custody over some of the children, other parent has custody over others. Not a preferred method by courts.
What do children benefit from after a divorce?
- Regular contact with both parents (and extended families)
- Being assured of adequate financial support (require commitment of both parents and effective enforcement laws)
What were the effects of changing the divorce legislation in 1968 and 1985.
In 1968, you had to prove an affair or infertility whereas in 1985, you only had to prove that you gad been separated for a certain length of time. This caused divorce rates to go up because now it is easier to get divorced.
Define simple stepfamily.
A family where the children are related to one parent but not the other.
Define complex/blended stepfamily.
Variations of the stepfamily form.
True or False?
In the past, most families were formed following the death of a spouse; now likelier to follow divorce.
True!
Define boundary ambiguity.
A lack of clarity about who does or does not belong in the family. Keeping boundaries permeable is usually the most workable option.
What are the stressors for children during divorce?
- The actual separation
- Poorer quality of parenting during and a father
- Loss of important relationships
- Financial hardship
- Conflict between parents
What are protective for children during divorce?
- Effective parenting from both parents
- Social support from extended family, friends, and institutions
What are the effects of divorce on children?
- Score lower on academic success, emotional and behavioural adjustments
How long does emotional adjustment take in children after divorce?
Up to two years
What is boundary and role ambiguity?
Refers to a lack of clarity about who does or does not belong in the family. Risk is especially high for young children and adolescents, keeping boundaries open works best
What are some ways to help children adjust to remarriage?
- Reassure children that they are both the cause of the changes
- Allow children to mourn the loss of the dream that their biological parents will reunite
- Reassure children that they will see and maintain a connection with the non-residential parent, especially important for 9-13 year olds
- Honour previous family rituals
Define a skip-generation family.
Families in which the children are raised by their grandparents without their parents at home.
What’s are some challenges in a skip generation family?
- Lack of energy
- need to reorganize home
- financial needs change
- children have emotional baggage
- grandparents receive no benefits
- might not want the burden or responsibility
What are the benefits of skip generation families for children?
Grandparents have a positive effect and are important your young adult grandchildren
- emotional gratification
- conveyors of family histories and transitions
What are some reasons Canaadian families are poor?
- Temporaty poverty (job loss)
- Indigienous peoples (colonialism)
- Immigrants (low paying jobs)
- Diablitires (low skills, education, and pay, high cost of living)
True or False?
Poverty among the elderly is decreasing.
True!
What are the 3 Factors that influence the impact of poverty?
- Depth: the amount a family or individual’s income is below the poverty line
- Breadth: Other aspects associated with poverty (illiteracy, poor health, physical insecurity)
- Duration: How long the poverty lasts
What are the challenges of poverty on children?
- have poorer health due to food insecurity
- live in substandardized housing
- live in unsafe neighborhoods where they can’t play
- no opportunities for extracurriculars
What are some ways to reduce family poverty?
- creates jobs
- address family insecurity
- raise wages
- increase social assistance
- focus on disadvantaged groups
What is Campaign 2000?
- 1989 House of Commons agreed to eliminate poverty by 2000
They proposed raising the minimum wage to $15
What are the 5 stages of psychological reactions to death?
- Denial
- Anger
- Bargaining
- Depression
- Acceptance
True or False?
The 5 stages of grief don’t have to happen in order and a person may jump back and forth on the scale.
True!
How should we talk to children about death?
- reassure the child
- use concrete terms
- allow children to express themselves
- maintain routines
- don’t avoid the topic
- be honest about yourself
Define Family violence.
A range of abusive behaviours that occur within relationships based on kinship, intimacy, dependency, or trust
What are the 5 forms of family violence?
- Physical
- Sexual
- Emotional
- Neglect
- Financial
Why do people stay in abusive situations?
- commitment to the caretaker role
- fear of the consequences of leaving
- feeling powerless
- denial
What are the stages of developing abuse in relationships?
- Seduce and charm them
- Isolate the victim
- Introduce the threat of violence
