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| poverty and single-parents |
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- more women than men
- divorced single mothers better off than never-married mothers |
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| male relative, family associate, or mother's partner "who demonstrates parental behaviors and is like a father to the child" |
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| support from social network on which single parents can back in times of economic need |
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| children in single-parent families |
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| - more likely to engage in "high-risk" behaviors, - likely to graduate from high school and college, + likely to have child outside of marriage, have lower earnings |
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| the guidance, attention, and social connections that can enhance the quality of one's like and/or enlarge one's opportunities |
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| characteristics of successful single parents |
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1 - acceptance of responsibilities and challenges of single parenthood
2 - parenting as first priority
3 - consistent, nonpunitive discipline
4 - emphasis on open communication
5 - fostering individuality supported by the family
6 - recognition of the need for self-nuturance
7 - dedication to rituals and traditions |
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| an approach to studying single-parent families which emphasizes the stresses and difficulties faced by parents and children |
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| single-parent family strength |
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1 - parenting skills
2 - personal growth
3 - communication
4 - family management
5 - financial support |
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| subsystems of the binuclear family |
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1 - former spouse [requires working through past conflict]
2 - remarried couple
3 - parent-child [step-mothers face greater stress than step-fathers]
4 - sibling, step-sibling, and half-sibling
5 - mother/step-mother - father/stepfather |
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- almost 1/3 of divorced individuals marry within a year of their divorce
- men have higher remarriage rates than women
- children lower probability of remarriage
- remarried people as satisfied in second marriage |
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| why increased divorce rate of remarriage even though satisfaction is the same? |
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- those who remarry often have diff outlook on marital stability, more likely to use divorce to resolve unhappy marriage
- remarriage as "incomplete institution"
- remarriage subject to stresses not present in first marriages |
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| structural difference of blended families |
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1. almost all members have lost an important primary relationship
2 - 1 biological parent typically lives outside the current family
3 - the relationship between a parent & children predates the relationship between the new partners
4 - stepparent roles are ill-defined
5 - many children in stepfamilies are also members of noncustodial parent's household
6 - children in stepfamilies have at least one extra pair of grandparents |
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| developmental stages of stepfamilies |
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1 - early stages: fantasy, immersion, awareness
2 - middle stages: mobilization [making needs known] & action [reorganizing]
3 - later stages: contact & resolution |
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