Marriage, Maybe Not
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What is a benefit of marriage?
Five percent of American adults' attitudes on this subject remained the same between 1990 and 2014.
What percentage of American adults report they do not want children?
An important role responsibility as a parent
What is the socialization?
The significant high percentage of children that fall below this in the U.S. is alarming. Those who fall below this vary by race and ethnicity.
What is the poverty rate?
The number of divorces in a given year per 1,000 people in the population
What is the crude divorce rate?
In the U.S., there are several categories in this group, but "never married" adults represent the largest percentage.
Who are singles?
This is declining in the U.S. and it is the total # of children born to women of childbearing age.
What is the total fertility rate?
This learning theory suggests that children will engage in behaviors they feel bring them desired rewards, and avoid those that cause their punishment.
What is behaviorism?
Many families in the U.S. struggle with having limited amounts. These two things are unevenly distributed in the U.S.
What is income and wealth?
This more accurate rate for following the trend in divorce provides the number of divorces in a given year for every 1,000 married women over the age of 15.
What is the refined divorce rate?
This is due to current factors such as, desire to fulfill career goals, popularity of cohabitation, more options for women, older adults living longer healthier lives, and divorce.
What explains the increase in singlehood in the U.S.?
Factors that help to explain this current trend are the high cost of childcare, women pursuing a career, and the delay of marriage.
What explains the decline in the American fertility rate?
These parents emphasize conformity, demand strict obedience and respect for authority. Use of humiliation and shame are used to make children obey. These parents focus on having their children stay out of trouble.
Who are dominating or authoritarian parents parents?
This causes great emotional and physical pain. It is an internal stressor that triggers stress (distress).
What is IPV or intimate partner violence?
Remarriages are least likely for this age group.
Who are the adults 35 years old and younger?
This increasing trend in the U.S. for those 25 years and older, is more common among men than it is for women.
What is the trend among never-marrieds?
This category of American females has the highest drop in fertility rates over the last 15 years.
Who are teens?
This approach applies reasoning and clarification to the child as to why s/he should behave a certain way.
What is the cognitive model of parenting?
These two processes occur when one partner uses emotional abuse, intimidation, threats, children, male privilege, money, and/or isolation with their intimate partner
What are power and control?
Approximately, 40% of all marriages in the U.S. are this type.
What are remarriages?
Several researchers (Cuber and Harroff (1965), and Olson (1993) find this type of marriage to be common.
What is a devitalized marriage?
Most men and women in the U.S. achieve this status at some point of their lives.
Who are parents?
These parents are both demanding and responsive to their children. Their parenting involves high levels of nurturance, involvement, sensitivity, reasoning and encouragement for their children to be independent thinkers.
Who are authoritative parents?
Phase 1 - Rising Tension; phase 2 - Escalation and explosion; and Phase 3 - Calmness, Contrition and Contrition.
What is the Cycle of Violence Theory?
A single parent family is one example of this. Another example is when former spouses and children live in two different households.
What is a binuclear family?