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Sarahs Chap. 11
Chapter 11 Vocabulary/ The Family Today
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Interdependent | A situation whre events that affect one member of the family often affect others either consciously or unconsciously. |
| Caring Family | A family in which each person sees the relationship between his or her behavior and the success of the family as a unit. |
| Responsible | Being dependable and reliable. |
| Respect | Seeing someone as a worthwhile individual. Showing consideration by accepting each person's rights to have opinions and feelings. |
| Concern | Having a special interest in what happens in the lives of other family members. |
| Open Expression | Sharing, leveling, and accepting. |
| Sharing | The first aspect of open expression. Letting others in the family know your personal thoughts, feelings, and opinions. |
| Leveling | The second aspect of open expression. Letting others know how you feel about them and their behavior. |
| Accepting | The third aspect of openness. This means respecting the other person's right to his or her own opinions and feelings, even if you don't agree. |
| Crises | Major problems that have a great effect on the people involved. |
| Domestic Violence | Family violence. |
| Physical Abuse | Abuse that involves hitting, kicking, tripping, choking, biting, or threatening with a weapon. |
| Emotional Abuse | Purposely harming the self-concept of a family member by insulting and undermining a person's confidence. The abused individual may suffer personality changes. Most suffer low self-esteem. |
| Sexual Abuse | Abuse the involves unwanted sexual contact. |
| Child Abuse | The physical or mental injury, sexual abuse, negligent treatment, or maltreatment of a child under the age of 18. |
| Incest | Sexual activity between persons who are closely related. |
| Child Neglet | Failure to meet a child's physical or emotional needs. |
| Physical Neglet | Neglet that occurs if parents or persons legally respnsible don't supply food, clothing, chelter, education, and medical care. |
| Emotinal Neglet | Failure to provide children with love and affection. |
| Substance Abuse | Involves misusing drugs, including alcohol, to a potentially harmful level. |
| Divorce | Occurs as a reself of stress in various areas, such as tension in marriage, financial problems, family violence, and substance abuse. |
| Custody | The assumption by a parent of the responsibility for the day-to-day decisions affecting the health, education, and welfare of the children. |
| Joint Custody | Custody in which the parents share equally in the responsibility for the children, with each parent having equal rights in decision making and spending time with the children. |
| Suicide | The taking of one's own life. |
| Support Group | A group of people who share a similar problem or concern. |
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