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HDFS302-Unit 4 Flashcards

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Crisis

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A critical change of events that disrupts the functioning of a person’s life.

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Family Stress

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Tensions that test a family’s emotional resources

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Acute Stress

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Short-term stress

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Chronic Stress

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Long-term stress

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General Adaptation Syndrome (GAS)

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The predictable pattern one’s body follows when coping with stress, which includes the alarm reaction, resistance, and exhaustion.

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Social Readjustment Rating Scale

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A scale of major life events over the past year, each of which is assigned a point value. The higher the score, the greater the chance of having a serious medical event.

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ABC-X Model

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A model designed to help us understand the variation int he ways that families cope with stress and crisis

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Double ABC-X Model

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A model designed to help us understand the effects of the accumulation of stresses and crises and how families adapt to them.

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Intimate Partner Violence

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Violence between those who are physically and sexually intimate, such as spouses or partners. The violence can encompass physical, economic, sexual or psychological abuse.

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Conflict Tactics Scale

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A scale based on how people deal with disagreements in relationships

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Femicide

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The killing of women.

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Learned Helplessness

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The psychological condition of having low-self esteem, feeling helpless, and having no control that is caused by repeated abuse.

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Battered Women’s Syndrome

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A recognized psychological condition, often a subcategory of post-traumatic stress syndrome, used to describe someone who has been the victim of consistent and/or severe domestic violence

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Date Rape Drugs

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Drugs such as gamma hydrobutyrate (GHB), Rohyphnol (popularly known as “roofies” or “roofenol”), or ketamine hydrochloride (Ketamine) that are used to immobilize a person to facilitate an assault

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Trafficking

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The recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring, or receipt of persons, by means of threat or use of force or other forms of coercion, of abduction, or fraud or deception, of the abuse of power or of a position of vulnerability, or of the giving or receiving of payments to achieve the consent of a person having a control over another person, for the purpose of exploitation.

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Sex Trafficking

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An industry in which children are coerced, kidnapped, sold, or deceived into sexual encounters.

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Elder Abuse

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Abuse of an elderly person that can include physical abuse, sexual abuse, psychological abuse, financial or material exploitation, and neglect.

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Intergenerational Transmission of Violence

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A cycle of violence that is passed down to dependents

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Domestic Violence Shelter

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A temporary safe house for a woman (with or without children) who is escaping an abusive relationship.

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Crude Divorce Rate

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The number of divorces per 1,000 people in the population.

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Refined Divorce Rate

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A measure of divorce based on the number of divorces that occur out of every 1,000 married women.

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Intergenerational Transmission of Divorce

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A pattern noted by researchers that people whose parents divorced are also more likely to divorce.

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No-Fault Divorce

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A type of divorce, now prevalent in all fifty states, in which a divorcing couple can go before a judge without one party having to blame the other.

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Legal Separation

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A binding agreement signed by both spouses that provides details about child support

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Stations of Divorce

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The interrelated emotional, legal, economic, co-parental, community, and psychic dimensions of divorce, which together attempt to capture the complexity of the divorce experience.

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Legal Divorce

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The termination of the marriage contract by a state court order.

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Alimony

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Payment by one partner to the other to support the more dependent spouse for a period of time.

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Legal Custody

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A custody agreement where one parent has the legal authority to make important decisions concerning the children after a divorce, such as where they will reside, or who will be notified in case of a health emergency or school problem.

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Sole Legal Custody

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A child custody arrangement in which legal custody is granted solely to the parent with whom the child lives.

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Joint Legal Custody

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A custody agreement in which noncustodial parents (usually fathers) retain their legal rights with respect to their children.

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Physical Custody

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A child custody arrangement that decides where the child will reside.

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Sole Physical Custody

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A child custody arrangement in which the child legally lives with one parent and “visits” the other parent.

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Joint Physical Custody

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A custody agreement in which children spend a substantial portion of time in the homes of both parents, perhaps alternating weeks or days within a week.

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Child Snatching

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The act of a noncustodial parent kidnapping his or her child.

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Divorce Mediation

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A non-adversial means of resolution, in which the divorcing couple, along with a third party, such as a therapist or trained mediator, negotiate the terms of their financial, custody, and visitation settlement.

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Child Support Order

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A legal document delineating the amount and circumstances surrounding the financial support of noncustodial children.

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Binuclear Families

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A type of family consisting of divorced parents living in two separate households but remaining one family in spirit for the sake of the children.

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Repartnering

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The act of entering into a relationship after a divorce, which may lead to cohabitation or marriage

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Double Standard of Aging

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The view that women’s attractiveness and femininity decline with age, but men’s attractiveness and masculinity do not decline.

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Blended Family (or reconstituted family)

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Another term for stepfamily; a family that may consist of stepparents, stepsiblings, or half-siblings

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Siblings

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Children who share both biological parents

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Stepsiblings

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Children not biologically related but whose parents are married to one another.

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Half-siblings

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A child who shares one biological parent with another child.

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Mutual child(ren)

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The child (or children) born to a couple that has remarried.

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Residential stepchild(ren)

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A child (or children) living in the household with a remarried couple more than half of the time.

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Nonresidential child(ren)

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A child (or children) living in the household of a divorced parent less than half of the time.

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Baby Boom Generation

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People born in the years after WWII through the early 1960s

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Life expectancy

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The amount of time (in years) a person can expect to live from birth

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Centenarian

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A person who lives to be at least 100 years old

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Social Security

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A federal government-sponsored cash assistance program for seniors (and survivors)

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Life-Stage Perspective

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A perspective that claims development proceeds through a fairly set pattern of sequential stages that most people experience

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Life-Span Perspective

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A perspective that claims development is a lifelong process, is multidirectional, and consists of both positive and negative changes involving gains and losses.

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Life-Course Perspective

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A perspective that sees age-related transitions as socially produced, socially recognized, and shared–a product of social structure, historical forces, and culture.

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Companionate Grandparenting

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A type of grandparenting where the grandparents and grandchildren enjoy recreational activities, occasional overnight stays, and even babysitting with an emphasis on fun and enjoyment.

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Remote Grandparenting

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A type of grandparenting in which the grandparents and grandchildren are emotionally or physically distant

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Involved Grandparenting

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A type of grandparenting in which the grandparents and grandchildren have frequent interaction or possibly even live together.

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Kinkeeping

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Maintaining ties among family members

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Gerontologists

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Researchers studying issues affecting the elderly

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Activities of Daily Living (ADLs)

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General day to day activities such as cooking, cleaning, bathing, and home repair.

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Dementia

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The loss of mental functions such as thinking, memory, and reasoning

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Alzheimer’s disease

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The most common form of dementia; at present, it is incurable

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Formal Care

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Care provided by social service agencies on a paid or volunteer basis

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Informal Care

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Unpaid care by someone close to the care recipient

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“Sandwich Generation”

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A generation of people who are in the middle of two living generations providing care to members of cohorts on both sides of them, parents and children.

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Resilience

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A multi-faceted ability to thrive despite adversity

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Individual-Level Protective Factors

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Traits including a positive self-concept, sociability, intelligence and scholastic competence, autonomy, self-esteem, androgyny, good communication, and problem-solving skills, humor, and good mental and physical health

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Family Protective Factors

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Family characteristics or dynamics that shape the family’s ability to endure in the face of risk factors

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Family Recovery Factors

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Family characteristics or dynamics that assist families in bouncing back from a crisis situation

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Community Factors

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Community features that help promote resilience, such as social networks and religious and faith-based fellowships

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Selective Programs

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Programs for which only a select group of people is eligible

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Means-tested Programs

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Programs for which beneficiaries need to meet some eligibility requirement to qualify

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Universal Programs

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Programs to help strengthen all families without any eligibility requirement

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Progressive Taxation

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A tax system under which those who earn more pay a higher percentage of their income in taxes than those who earn less.

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National Health Insurance

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A health care system for all citizens that considers health care a public right

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Maternity (or family) Leave

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A paid and guaranteed leave from work to care for children, including after the birth of a child

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Flextime

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Flexibility in the daily hours of work

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Flexplace

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Flexibility in the location of work, including working from home

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Telecommuting

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Flexibility in the location of work, including working from home.

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Earned Income Tax Credit

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A refundable federal tax credit for low-income working families that reduces the amount of taxes owed.

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Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF)

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The principal cash welfare program in the United States

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Early Childhood Intervention

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Attempts to maintain or improve the quality of life for young children

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Cumulative Advantage and Disadvantage

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Early life chances that influence status in later life

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