Divorce/
Crisis
Crisis
This is the official, legal dissolution of a marriage. Rates of this went up as women gained more financial independence, peaked in the late 1970s, but have declined since then.
What is divorce?
This is a person who does unpaid care work and housework at home for their family.
What is a homemaker?
A ritual that marks a symbolic transition from one social position to another, for example, from childhood to adulthood.
What is a rite of passage?
Women tend to earn less after they have children. Part of this is due to discrimination in hiring, promotion, and pay-raises.
What is the motherhood penalty?
This is a legal or religious decision that determines that a marriage was never valid.
What is annulment?
This is when work responsibilities and family responsibilities compete, making it difficult for an individual to fulfill the demands of one or the other.
What is work-family conflict or spillover?
A 1993 law requiring up to 12 weeks unpaid leave for workers who need it for medical reasons or to care for family members (birth, adoption, illness).
What is the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)?
What is corporal punishment?
This model of analyzing crisis focuses not only on the event, the stressor, but also on interacting factors such as the family's definition of the situation and the pileup of other potential stressors.
What is the ABCX model?
This is a household in which both spouses have paid work outside the home.
What is a dual-income family?
The period between puberty and adulthood. “A time of important physical, intellectual, and role changes.” Its transitional nature is can bring conflict, tension, or confusion in the family.
What is adolescence?
Under this style of parenting, kids are expected to make their own decisions with few or no parental restraints.
What is permissive parenting?
Divorce rates increasing in older age, those over 55, even as divorce rates among younger generations decrease.
What is "gray divorce"?
A social institution that demands total commitment from its members and overrides the established separation of social life into different spheres, such as work, home, leisure, politics, and religion.
What is a "greedy institution"?
This model explains a population-level shift from high birthrates to low birthrates. This shift often correlates with levels of education and economic prosperity.
What is the demographic transition?
Under this style of parenting, parents exercise maximum control and expect unquestioning obedience.
What is authoritarian parenting?
These are potentially traumatic events that occur at ages 0-17. They can increase risk for a variety of negative outcomes, but there can also be mitigating/protective factors in the right kind of family or community.
What are ACEs (Adverse Childhood Experiences)?
If women can pursue their own careers, they are less likely to be economically motivated to get married or to stay in a failing marriage. This effect is a likely reason for the increasing divorce rate in the 1970s.
What is the independence effect?
Using one’s own cultural worldview and cultural values as the baseline and standard to evaluate another’s cultural behavior or standards
What is ethnocentrism?
What is authoritative parenting?