Working with Single-Parent and Blended Families - Chapter 4 Flashcards
1
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Define: custodial parent
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- the parent with primary custody of a child.
2
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Define: joint custody
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- an arrangement where both divorced parents assume equal custody of their children.
3
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Define: noncustodial parent
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- a parent who does not have primary physical custody of a child, but still has the same rights as the custodial parent.
4
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Define: parentified child
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- a child who is given privileges and responsibilities developmentally inconsistent with their age.
- these kids are forced to give up childhood and act like a parent
5
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Define: Parents Without Partners
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- a national organization that helps single parents and their kids deal with single-parent family life, using education and experiential methods.
6
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Define: premarital counseling
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- working with a couple to enhance their relationship prior to marriage.
7
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Define: quasi kin
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- a formerly married person’s ex-spouse, the ex-spouse’s new spouse, and their blood kin.
8
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Name the 4 types of single-parent families:
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- Single parenthood from divorce
- single parenthood from death
- single parenthood by choice
- single parenthood from temporary circumstance (military deployment)
9
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In a single-parent household resulting from death, what are the 2 major tasks fro the surviving parent?
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- reestablishment of the parent’s life
- restructuring of the family
10
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Family development after parental death follows 3 stages:
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- Mourning stage
- Readjustment stage
- Renewal and accomplishment stage
11
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Name 4 strengths of single-parent families:
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- Tend to be democratic
- Family members are often flexible when it comes to roles and rules, because of limited resources.
- Kids go through developmental stages more quickly
- Are creative in locating and using resources
12
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Name 5 challenges of single-parent families:
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- Defining and refining boundaries and roles to prevent role reversal/role overload
- Less educational achievement
- Trouble establishing a clear and strong identity and fully experiencing childhood.
- Experiencing poverty
- Dealing with feelings, being emotionally stuck in the past.
13
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Research has found that what 2 factors predict that couples are likely to divorce?
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- A husband’s unwillingness to be influenced by his wife.
- Wife starts quarrels with hostility.
14
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2/3 of divorces occur in the first _____ years of marriage.
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- 10
15
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List 4 times when marriage is vulnerable to divorce:
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- During the first 2 years as the couples adjusts to living with each other.
- After the birth of a child.
- In the first 7 years.
- 16-24 years into marriage.
