Vocab Flashcards
A process in marriage in which newly married partners must modify their idealized expectations and deal with the realities of living together as husband and wife.
identity bargaining
A custody arrangement in which the children divide their time between both parents.
joint custody
parents share decision making about the children’s upbringing
joint legal custody
the children live alternately and for specified periods in each parent’s home.
joint physical custody
Parents share physical and legal custody of their children equally
co-custody
there is communication between the adoptive parents, birth parents, and adopted
children, but through a third party
(e.g., an agency caseworker or attorney) rather than directly.
semi-open adoption
The social bonds that people have with others and the community at large.
social integration
The proportion of men to women in a country or group.
sex ratio
A marriage in which partners with minimal emotional investment and expectations maintain independent spheres of interests and activities and derive satisfaction from relationships with others rather than
from each other.
passive-congenial marriage
A sex imbalance in the ratio of available unmarried women and men.
marriage squeeze
A living arrangement in which a couple tests its relationship before making a final commitment to get married.
premarital cohabitation
Conflicts that someone feels within a role.
role strain
A marriage in which spouses maintain a close relationship, resolve conflicts quickly through compromise, and often make sacrifices for each other.
vital marraige
The frustrations and uncertainties a person experiences when the expectations of two or more roles are incompatible
role conflict
A marriage in which the spouses participate in each other’s lives at all levels and have little tension or unresolved hostility.
total marriage
