Marriages And Families 5

Front 1

In the face of a crisis, family members may be numbed by the new or sudden stress and, in a process of denial, go about their buisness as if the event have not occured. Gradually, however, they begin to assimilate the reality of the crisis to apraise the situation then the text points out the, the period of ____ sets in.

Back 1

family disorganization

Front 2

Withdrawing from friends and kin ____ a family's ability to meet a crisis.

Back 2

weakens

Front 3

During the period of disorganization, family members face the decision of whether to express or to smother any ______ they may have.

Back 3

angry feelings

Front 4

Some families do not recover from crisis intact, as today's _______ illustrates.

Back 4

divorce rate

Front 5

The text categorizes a family's crisis-meeting resources into three types. What are they?

Back 5

Personal/individual, family, community

Front 6

As one source of crisis-meeting skills, each family or family system has a level of resources, including bonds of trust, appreciation, and support, called ______.

Back 6

family harmony

Front 7

A study of alcoholic families found that adult children of alcoholics who came from families that ________ were less likely to become alcoholics themselves.

Back 7

maintained family dinner

Front 8

Some families are vulnerable, and are more prone to poor adjustment from crisis provoking events. What are the qualities of a vulnerable family?

Back 8

Lower sense of common purpose, feel less in control of what happens to them

Front 9

The Bradford family copes very well with stress, emphasizing mutual acceptance, respecct, and shared values. Given this information, the Bradford family can be characterized as:

Back 9

resilient

Front 10

What are the facttors mentioned in the text for meeting a crisis creatively?

Back 10

positive outlook, spiritual values and support groups, open supportive communication, adatablity, community resources

Front 11

Families whose members choose to be _______ in roles and leadership meet crises creatively.

Back 11

flexible

Front 12

The typical American family is under a _______ level of stress at all times.

Back 12

high

Front 13

Emerging developmental theories of childhood well0being provided support to a presumption taht when divorce occurs, mother custody was always in the child's best interest. This point of view came to be known as the so-called "_____" doctrine.

Back 13

tender years

Front 14

There are more than _______ noncustodial mothers, concentrated in the twenty-five to forty-five age range and lower to middle-class economic level.

Back 14

2 million

Front 15

What percentage of noncustodial fathers have at least weekly contact with their children?

Back 15

35%-40%

Front 16

In the _____ custody variation in joint custody agreements, both parents have the right to participate in important decisions and retain a symbolically important legal authority, with physical custody (that is, residential care of the child) going to just one parent.

Back 16

joint legal

Front 17

A review of 33 studies of joint and sole custody foind that:

Back 17

children in joint custody agreements had superior adjustment

Front 18

The poverty rate of single custodial mothers ______ between 1993 and 2005; it remains higher than that of custodial fathers.

Back 18

dropped significantly

Front 19

Sociologist Catherine Ross compared levels of psychological distress for men and women in four different categories. What are these?

Back 19

Marrieds, cohabitors, those dating, those with no partners

Front 20

On average, in comparison with their counterparts from stable households, adult children of divorced parents:

Back 20

are in contact less with their parents

Front 21

What options requires spouses spouses to prove fault or live apart for certain length of time in order to obtain a divorce?

Back 21

covenant marriage

Front 22

When only a "fault" divorce statute was available, in which state was adultery the only practicable grounds for divorce?

Back 22

New York

Front 23

What are the types of post-divorce relationships identified by Ahorns?

Back 23

Perfect pals, cooperative colleaques, angry associates, or fiery foes

Front 24

What are Melinda Blau's general guidelines for co-parents?

Back 24

heal yourself, act maturely, listen to your children, respect each other, divide parenting time, accept each other's differences, communicate directly, step out of traditional gender roles, recognize and accept change, know co-parenting is forever

Front 25

The good divorce does not end a family but instead produces a _____ two households, one family.

Back 25

divorce-extended faimly

Front 26

Another challenge to remarried families is that roles of step child and stepparent are _____.

Back 26

not well defined

Front 27

Legally, the stepparent is a ______ with no prescribed rights or duties.

Back 27

non-parent

Front 28

White and Booth found that, in comparison with teens in intact families, older teenage and young adult children in stepfamilies leave home:

Back 28

at significantly lower ages