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246 Exam 1
246 CH 3
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| family demographers | to explain family demographic trends and to reveal implications f these trends to families and the society |
| cohabitation | living together without being married, increase in North America |
| divorce | rate is declining in 45 yr olds and younger |
| divorce causes | shorter marriages, remarriage, lower education attainment, financial stressors, poor marital quality |
| widowhood | women's rate is higher because of higher life expectancy |
| replacement level fertility | required number of children each woman in the population would have to bear on average to replace herself and her partner, 2.1 |
| causes of delayed childbirth | education, professional opportunities, infertility obstacles, delays to marraige |
| multiple partner fertility | when someone has biological children with more than one partner |
| half siblings | same mom or dad, biological standpoint at one end |
| assisted reproductive technologies | fertility treatments where eggs and sperm are handled outside the body and fertilized eggs are transferred to a woman's bosy |
| public adoptions | child that is in the care of the state welfare authority |
| MEPA | removed barriers and permitted interethnic adoptions to occur to increase placements of minority children |
| children living arrangements | live with biological or adoptive parents, majority married |
| same sex parent households | step parenting, adoption, less likely to have children living with them |
| blended and step family households | children living with biological parents and half siblings |
| multigenerational households | grand parenting |
| single parent households | increases financial dependence |
| orphaned elder | older adults with no immediate family close by to provide support |
| demographic theories | explain observed changes at the population level by looking at economic and social context |
| first demographic transition | reduction in fertility and the associated reductions in mortality that accompanied industrialization and modernization |
| second demographic transition | understand below replacement level fertility, delayed marriage and childbearing, retreat from marriage and higher rates of cohabitation, increase in non-marital births, new patterns in living arrangements and family instability |
| third demographic transition | low fertility native born population, high fertility racial and ethnic immigrant population are emerging |
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