Chapter 11 04 02 2013 Intimate Partner Violence defined as violence between those who are physically and sexually intimate such as spouses or partners Can encompass physical economic sexual or psychological How We Define and Measure Intimate Partner Violence Conflict Tactics Scale CTS a scale based on how people deal with disagreements in relationships Femicide the killing of women Type of Intimate Partner Violence Common Couple Violence Intimate Terrorism Violent Resistance Mutual Violent Control Stalking and Cyberstalking Coping with Violence Leaving and Staying Learned Helplessness the psychological condition of having low self esteem feeling helpless and having no control that is caused by repeated abuse Battered Women s Syndrome a recognized psychological condition often a subcategory of post traumatic stress syndrome used to describe someone who has been the victim of consistent and or severe domestic violence Violence in Gay and Lesbian Relationships Dating Violence Rape and Sexual Assault Rape of College Campuses Date Rape Drugs Drugs that are used to immobilize a person to facilitate an assault Child Abuse and Neglect Child Abuse an attack on a child that results in an injury and violates our social norms Types of Child Abuse Corporal Punishment Who Would Abuse Children Sex Trafficking Elder Abuse Explanations for Violence among Intimates Micro Level Explanations The intergenerational Transmission of Violence A cycle of violence that is passed down to dependents Stress Explanation The Process of Divorce 04 02 2013 Micro Level Factors Parental Divorce Intergenerational Transmission of Divorce a pattern noted by researchers that people whose parents divorced are also more likely to divorce Age at Marriage Macro Structural Factors Level of Socioeconomic Development Religion Divorce Laws No Fault Divorce a type of divorce now prevalent in all fifty states in which a divorcing couple can go before a judge without one party having to blame the other The Phases of Separation 1 Honeymoon everything is perfect and everyone is happy 2 Erosion people began to start having problems with each other and the feelings begin to wash away For example arguments and ignoring 3 High Conflict conflict escalates and more and more problems occur 4 Apathy they don t care anymore and have no desire to work the problems out 5 Legal Separation a binding agreement signed by both spouses that provides details about child support Affairs occur between high conflict and apathy Defined as the interrelated emotional legal economic co parental community and psychic dimensions of divorce which together attempt to capture the complexity of the The Stations of Divorce divorce experience The Emotional Divorce Legal Divorce The termination of the marriage contract by a state court order Economic Divorce Alimony payment by one partner to the other to support the more dependent spouse for a period of time The Process of Divorce 04 02 2013 Co Parental Divorce Legal Custody a custody agreement where one parent has the legal authority to make important decisions concerning the children after a divorce Child Snatching the act of a noncustodial parent kidnapping his or her child The Community Divorce The Psychic Divorce A Helping Hand Divorce Mediation Divorce Mediation a non adversarial means of resolution in which the divorcing couple along with a third party such as a therapist or trained mediator negotiate the terms of the financial custody and visitation settlement Divorce and Children Child Support Child Support Order a legal document delineating the amount and circumstances surrounding the financial support of noncustodial children Long Term Effects Age and Sex of the Child A Word of Caution Short Term Effects Parental Conflict Loss of a Parent A Reduced Standard of Living Adjusting to Transitions The Good Divorce Binuclear Family a type of family consisting of divorced parents living in two separate households but remaining one family in spirit for the sake of the children Family Life Partnering and Remarriage after Divorce Being Single Again The Emotional Effects of Divorce Relationships between Custodial Parents and Children Issues for Custodial Mothers Downward Mobility Custodial Fathers Growing Group 04 02 2013 Repartnering after a Divorce Repartnering the act of entering into a relationship after a divorce which may lead to cohabitation or marriage Remarriage Double Standard of Aging the view that women s attractiveness and femininity decline with age but men s attractiveness and masculinity do not decline Stepfamilies Blended Family or reconstituted family Another term for stepfamily a family that may consist of stepparents stepsiblings or half siblings Siblings children who share both biological parents Stepsiblings children not biologically related but whose parents are married to one another Half Sibling a child who shares one biological parent with another child Mutual Child ren the child or children born to a couple that has remarried Residential Step Child ren a child or children living in the household with a remarried couple more than half of the time Families in Middle and Later Life 04 02 2013 Baby Boom Generation people born in the years after World War II through the early 1960s The Oldest Old are Increasing 65 early old 75 now your old 80 old Life Expectancy the amount of time in years a person can expect to live from birth Centenarian a person who lives at least 100 years Elder women still outnumber elder men 04 02 2013 04 02 2013
View Full Document
Unlocking...