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Ch1: Family Life Now
| Answer | Question |
|---|---|
| includes religious, legal, and social | What aspects does marriage include? |
| experiences vary per situation | How does the world experience marriage and family? |
| legally recognized union | What is marriage? |
| family wealth | What did marriage traditionally protect? |
| economic partnerships | What do couples today form? |
| political, religious, social, and economic unit | Family was the basic.... |
| seen as sacred in, seen as the strongest of bonds | How is marriage viewed in several religions? |
| two-person marriage | What is monogamy? |
| more than one partner | What is polygamy? |
| man has multiple wives | What is (poly)gyny? |
| woman has multiple husbands | What is (poly)andry? |
| group marriage | What is cenogamy? |
| each generation's attitude underpins their approach to relationships | How do shifting views around marriage relate to each generation? |
| 1928 - 1945 | the Silent Generation |
| 1946 - 1965 | Baby Boomers |
| 1966 - 1980 | Gen X |
| 1981 - 1996 | Millennials |
| 1997 - present | Gen Z |
| group of 2+ people related and living together; family is responsible for children | What is family? |
| all people who occupy a housing unit | What is a household? |
| householder living alone or with unrelated people | What is a nonfamily household? |
| family into which we are born/adopted | What is family of origin? |
| family unit formed when we marry and have children | What is family of procreation? |
| spectrum of differences among groups in a culture | What is diversity? |
| refers to people's differences | What is diverse? |
| father, mother, and their children society's paradigm of a family certain set of gender roles | What is the Nuclear Family? |
| family unit in which 2+ generations live together | What is Extended Family? |
| single-parent, childless/childfree, and stepfamilies, cohabiting, gay/lesbian, and immigrant families with children | What is included in the Expanding Family Landscape? |
| 59 births perk 1,000 women | What is the general fertility rate? |
| low birth rates, increase in nonmarital cohabitation, influx of women in the workforce, legalized abortion | What are recent changes that impact family? |
| African American/Black Caribbean | Which race of family is more common for children to be born to a single mother? |
| Latinx Families | What race is the fastest growing population in the US? |
| Latinx Families | What race has a high value on family? |
| extended kinship ties and needs of therefle entire family | What do Asian American families emphasis? |
| Asian American | What race places emphasis on their children? |
| 42% | What percentage of U.S. citizens are Muslim/Arab? |
| critical thinkers and to be sensitive to people with differences | What should you teach your children to be? |
| promotes individual goals over group goals | What is an individualistic culture? |
| individuals define identity in terms of relationships with others | What is a collectivist culture? |
| Uri Bronfenbrenner | Who was the Ecological Model developed by? |
| areas of individual and family development | What does the Ecological Model show? |
| the individual/person | Who is at the center of the Ecological Model? |
| developmental context nearest to the individual | What is the Microsystem? |
| family, neighbors, work, school, friends, etc. | What is included in the Microsystem? |
| focuses on interaction between various elements | What is the Mesosystem? |
| fabrics of society in which policies are made and influenced | What is the Exosystem? |
| local governments, mass media, extended families, parents friends, etc. | What is included in the Exosystem? |
| how society’s set of values and beliefs affects the individual | What is the Macrosystem? |
| social norms, economic system | What is included in the Macrosystem? |
| reflects changes over time | What is the Chronosystem? |
| time | What is included in the Chronosystem? |
| Perspective that unveils inadequacies families feel when faced with change | What is family life education? |
| provides education to help strengthen families | What does family life education do? |
| individual development and experiences | What does the perspective of family life education consider? |
| dealing-with problems focus preventing-the-problems focus developing-family-potentials focus | What are the focuses of family life education? |
| Certified Family Life Educator | What is a CFLE? |
| someone with demonstrated knowledge | What does a CFLE have? |
| National Council on Family Relations | What is NCFR? |
| only sponsor for international certification programs | What is the NCFR? |