Kelsey family relations study guide for final exam PDF

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Child Free-The decision made by a married or cohabitating couple to not have children. Non-parenting: not having children Parental Support-The amount of caring, closeness, and affection a parent exhibits or gives to his or her children. Co-parenting: A style of parenting in which both parents take on tasks and roles traditionally associated with only the mother or the father. Legal Custody: Making decisions for the child’s welfare that may be held by a parent who doesn’t have physical custody. Corporal Punishment: Use of physical force as punishment. Bird Nest Custody: A form of access or custody where the children stay in the former family residence and it is the parents who rotate in and out separately and on a negotiated schedule. Joint custody: Legal custody of a child or children that is shared by both parents after divorce or separation. Stepfamily: The family created when one or both partners in a marriage have a child or children from a previous marriage. Binuclear Family: A post-divorce family in which both parents participate in the raising of their children despite living in separate households; the children generally reside with one of the parents. Nuclear family: A kinship group in which a husband, a wife, and their children live together in one household also called a conjugal family system.

Blended Family: A term used to describe a step family. Some researchers object to the term because it creates unrealistic expectations that the new family will quickly and easily blend together harmoniously, and because it assumes a homogeneous unit, one without a previous history or background. Four horsemen of the Apocalypse: Criticism-negative words that are global about the partner, attacking the partners personality, or character rather than a specific behavior. Contempt-being overly critical using such means of expression such as insults, sarcasm, name calling, hostile humor, and mockery. Defensiveness: denying one’s own role in a problem or issue, thus blaming the partner. Stonewalling: failing to respond or turning the partner out. Authoritarian parenting: A parenting style in which parents establish rigid rules and expectations and strictly enforce them. These parents expect and demand obedience from a child. Authoritative parenting: A parenting style that is child-centered, in that parents closely interact with their children while maintaining high expectations for behavior and performance, as well as a firm adherence to schedules and discipline. Permissive Indulgent: Parents give anything and everything the children want.

Permissive neglectful: When parents ignore, and the parents are disabled. The parents are limited to barely taking care of themselves, let alone, taking care of their children and be close to them. No fault divorce: statutes eliminated the need to place blame on one partner or the other. Incompatibility and irreconcilable differences were added to the grounds for divorce. Divorce stigma: Good reasons to why people get divorced such as plain unhappiness, or abuse. Boundary ambiguity: The outcome of ambiguous loss. People are confused about who is in and out of their family system. Ambiguous loss: a loss that remained unclear. The loss could not be verified as a definite-like a death. Ambiguous loss is a loss without closure, often for years, even for a lifetime. PTSD: Post traumatic stress disorder. A severe stress reaction characterized by the reexperiencing of past traumatic events. Learned Helplessness Theory: A theory that a learned passivity develops from giving power over oneself to another; that passivity increases helplessness, reduces problem-solving abilities, and limits options. Abuse: behaviors that intimidate, manipulate, humiliate, isolate, frighten, terrorize, coerce, threaten, blame, hurt, injure, or wound someone. Some examples are physical abuse, sexual abuse, emotional abuse, economic abuse, psychological abuse, verbal abuse, and mental abuse.

Baumrinds parenting styles: Authoritative, authoritarian, Permissive indulgent, permissive neglectful. Gottman’s predictors of divorce and possible solutions/antidotes: Harsh startups, be positive in your conversations, the four horsemen, don’t be critical toward your partner, flooding, be positive toward your partner and don’t overwhelm them, body language, be physically, emotionally, and mentally there. Listen intently. failed repair attempts, bad memories....