Marriages And Families Ch. 12

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Attachment

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An active, affective, enduring, and reciprocal bond between two individuals that is believed to be established through repeated action over time.

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Center Care

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Group child care provided in day-care centers for a relatively large number of children.

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Child care

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The care and education of children by people other than their parents.

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commuter marriage

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A marriage in which the two partners live in different locations and commute to spend time together,

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Elder care

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Overt acts of aggression toward the elderly, in which the victim may be physically assaulted, emotionally humiliated, purposefully isolated, or materially exposed.

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family child care

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Child care provided in a caregiver's home.

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family-friendly workplace policies

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Workplace policies that are supportive of employee efforts to combine family and work commitments.

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family leave

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A leave of absence from work granted to family members to care for new infants, newly adopted children, ill children, or aging parents.

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flexible scheduling

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A type of employment scheduling that includes scheduling options such as job sharing or flextime.

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flextime

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A pliciy that permits an employee some flexibility to adjust working hours to suit family needs or personal preference.

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good provider role

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A specialized masculine role that emerged in the country around the 1830s and that empahsized the husband as the only or primary economic provider for his family.

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househusband

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A man who takes a fulltime family-care role, rather than being employed.

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in-home caregiver

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A caregiver who provides child care in the child's home, either coming in by the day or as a live-in-caregiver.

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job sharing

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Two people sharing one job.

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labor force

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A social invention that arose with the industrialization of the ineteenth centry, when people characteristically became wage earners, hiring out their labor to someone else.

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leisure gap

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Between husbands and wives as women sacrifice leisure, and sleep, to accomplish unpaid family work.

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market approach to child care

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Child-care arrangment of working parents.

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market work

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Employment as contrasted with unpaid house-hold work.

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motherhood penalty

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The fact that motherhood has a tremendous negative life-time impact on earnings.

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mothering approach to child care

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A family's childcare arrangment that gives preference to the mother's caregiving role.

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Nanny

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An in-home child-care worker who cares for a family's children either on a live-in basis or by the day.

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Neotraditional families

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Families that value traditional gender roles and organize their family life in these terms as far as practicable.

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Occupational segregation

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The distribution of men and women into substantially different occupations.

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opting out

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A woman's leaving the labor forace, perm. or temp., in order to devote full time to child-raising.

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parenting approach to child care

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Child care is shared by the parents on as equal a basis as possible.

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reinforcing cycle

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A cycle regarding women's earnings and paid and unpaid family work in which cultural expectations and persistent discrimination result in employed males receiving higher average earnings than women employed full time and in women's doing more unpaid family work to the detriment of their careers.

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second shift

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Sociologist Arlie Hochshild's term for the domestic work that employed women must perform after coming home from a day on the job.

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self-care

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An approach to child care for working parents in which the child is at home or out without an adult caretaker.

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sequencing mom

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A mother who chooses to leave paid employment in order to spend some years at home raising children, but who plans to return to work eventually.

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shift work

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As defined by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, any work schedule in which more than half of an empoyee's hours are before 8am or after 4pm.

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Nanny

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An in-home child-care worker who cares for a family's children either on a live-in basis or by the day.

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Neotraditional families

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Families that value traditional gender roles and organize their family life in these terms as far as practicable.

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Occupational segregation

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The distribution of men and women into substantially different occupations.

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opting out

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A woman's leaving the labor forace, perm. or temp., in order to devote full time to child-raising.

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parenting approach to child care

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Child care is shared by the parents on as equal a basis as possible.

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reinforcing cycle

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A cycle regarding women's earnings and paid and unpaid family work in which cultural expectations and persistent discrimination result in employed males receiving higher average earnings than women employed full time and in women's doing more unpaid family work to the detriment of their careers.

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second shift

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Sociologist Arlie Hochshild's term for the domestic work that employed women must perform after coming home from a day on the job.

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self-care

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An approach to child care for working parents in which the child is at home or out without an adult caretaker.

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sequencing mom

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A mother who chooses to leave paid employment in order to spend some years at home raising children, but who plans to return to work eventually.

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shift work

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As defined by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, any work schedule in which more than half of an empoyee's hours are before 8am or after 4pm.

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stay-at-home dad

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A dad who is not employed but remains at home to take care of children and other domestic responsibilities.

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trailing spouse

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The spouse of a relocated employee who moves with him or her.

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two-career marriage

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Marriage in which both partners have a strong commitment to the lifetime devlopment of both careers.

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two-earner marriage

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Marriage in which the wife as well as the husband is employed, but her work is not viewed as a lifetime career.

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unpaid family work

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The necesaary tasks of attending to both the emotional needs of all family members and the practical needs of dependent members.

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wage gap

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The persistent difference in earnings between men and women.