The most violent industrialized nation in the world.
What is the United States?
100
Educational opportunities, jobs, and/or safety.
Why do families immigrate to the U.S.?
100
The framework that includes a child's micro, meso, exo, and macro system.
What is the ecological model?
200
Family needs, interdependence, close family ties, low divorce rates, female-headed households.
What are Asian and Pacific Islander family's values?
200
These families have higher incomes and higher levels of education.
Who adopts children?
200
Debating gay marriage, abortion, and stem cell research.
How are we questioning traditional family values?
200
Families who are highly mobile; 39% or more of Americans changed addresses in 2004.
What are transient families?
300
About 38.5 million individuals in America, came to America in the 1840s because of the potato famine, have high rates of addictions, primarily alcoholism.
What are traits of Irish families?
300
According to the 2000 census, there are 4.4 million of these are under the age of 18.
What are stepchildren?
300
$200 to $260 per week in many communities.
What is the cost of high-quality care for infants and toddlers in 2005?
300
This population of families face challenges based on their history of racism and discrimination in the U.S., experience un and underemployment in the male population, and are the 2nd largest distinct racial/ethnic group in the U.S.
What is the African American family?
400
Skin color, speech pattern, or manner of dress.
How we tend to label members of a specific racial or ethnic group.
400
1. the effectiveness of parenting the child(ren)
2. the level of conflict
3. parental relationship with the child(ren)
What are three factors that impact the infant or toddler's adjustment to divorce?
400
*More than twice as likely to be abused or neglected
*twice as likely to repeat a grade
*likely to fare better if they lived in another country
What some risks poor children in America face?
400
This has replaced the analogy of the U.S. as a "melting pot".
What is "salad bowl"?
500
Incorporates aspects of the home culture with the mainstream culture.
What is bicultural adaptation?
500
2 out of 5 children will live in this kind of family during some of their childhood.
What is cohabitating families?
500
In 1970 ~ 60%
In 2001 ~ 30%
What is the change in the traditional family structure?