Chapter 7 & 11 Flashcards

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Benefits for economically-advantaged youth

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* Longer education process | * Delayed marriage and parenthood brings more stable partnerships

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1. More educated and better prepared for the work force | 2. More two-worker families and financial stability

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1. Shorter work life and lack of savings 2. Working longer into the "troisieme age" 3. Lower fertility and population aging

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*Significant milestone for both parents and children

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1. Timing of home leaving 2. Reasons for Home leaving 2. Patterns of returning home

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* Usually measured as a physical move for at least four months * From the perspective of parents, child launching is a mid-life developmental phase * Often includes semi-autonomous living arrangements

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1. Home staying 2. Mature co-residency 3. Boomeranging

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Remaining at home after age 19/20

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Remaining at home after age 25

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Returning to the parental home after leaving * Rising since 70s - 1/3 Canadians aged 20-29 return home at least once - Parental blame

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* Women tend to leave home at an earlier age * Women tend to marry earlier or cohabit/become single parents earlier * Face higher levels of parental supervision while living at home

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living in "non-intact" households, facing family disruption increases later homeleaving

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High social capital and getting along with parents prevent homeleaving

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Socio-economic status matters less than the type of dwelling, number of siblings

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* Immigrants more likely to live with their parents in their 20s * Some cultures encourage living with parents

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Employed young adults with greater financial resources leave home earlier

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Affects employment and educational opportunities

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Adult children from major cities leave home later | Adult children from smaller cities leave home earlier

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Lower education, higher risk of poverty, homelessness, drug addiction and prostitution

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*Consequences for parents | Affect marriages, delay downsizing, affect retirement savings, strained parent/child relations

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Well-meaning but misguided parents providing excessive support

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- Delayed marriage and increased cohabitation - Increased need for post-secondary attendance - Low starting salaries, expensive housing, fewer career job, high student loan debt

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Home leaving and returning affect mid-life parental experiences and parent-child relations

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* Roles and responsibilities of mid-life and aging parents have changed. * Assumptions of family dysfunction and individual pathology * Media portrayals of "adultescents" as lazy or greedy * Majority of parents and children report satisfaction * Mutual interdependence and reciprocity

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- Less predictable, more complex - Can be particularly challenging for mothers - Extended socialization - Can either strengthen or weaken intergenerational solidarity

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- lack of privacy and independence - desire for intimacy at a distance - Multiple returns home can have a negative effect on parental marriages

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Lack of privacy, conflict and stress, parental rules, feeling dependent

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Involves an intermediary and occurs when families play a pivotal role in the choice of one's marital partner

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Describes intimate romantic relationships that are negotiated between two or more people and that are either sexually or emotionally exclusive or both

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Is the tendency to date and marry within one's social group or social class, race, religion or language group

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Refers to the family that we form when we mature, apart from our family of origin or the family that we are born into

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An estimate of the average number of children that women will have in their lifetime

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The shift from high mortality and fertility levels to low mortality and fertility levels that began around 1870 and lasted until about 1965

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refers to social discourse that creates the perception that women are, by nature, maternal and that they desire children

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refers to a non-random approach of selecting mates or spouses who have similar physical, intellectual, personality, and social class traits

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are defined as those partners, who are neither married nor living common law, but who are in an intimate committed couple relationship yet living apart together

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Is women's tendency to marry up with regards to age, education, occupation and even height

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A trend that is on the rise, refers to having biological children with more than one partner

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Refers to the grief that many parents feel when their children move out of the home, and is more common in women since they are more likely to have had the role of primary caregiver

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occur when young adults physically leave the parental home, but continue to live in family-like settings and draw upon parental resources

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is a non-tangible resource that inheres in the quality of relationships. It can be found in strong, supportive families or other social networks and facilitates certain goals or objectives

Chapter 7 & 11 Flashcards

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