FAD Chapter 11 Final notes Family stress and crisis Violence among intimates Crisis a critical change of events that disrupts the functioning of a persons life Family stress tensions that test a family s emotional resources divorce Acute stress short term stress Chronic stress long term stress child w diseases Ten most common family stressors Money child s behavior insufficient time as a couple Nature of stress and crisis Responses to stress General adaptation syndrome GAS The predictable pattern ones body follows when coping with stress which includes the alarm reaction resistance and exhaustion Patterns of family crisis 3 distinct phases o The event that causes the crisis o The period of disorganization that follows o The recognition that takes place afterwards 5 patterns of the effects of stress crises on family functioning 1 15 no change 2 5 couldn t keep going 3 18 things got better Coping or not The ABC X Models ABC X Model A model designed to help us understand the variation in the ways that families cope with stress and crisis look at graph in book o A is stressor event death o B resources family has financial family o C Family s perception angry not fair Double ABC X model a model designed to help us understand the effects of the accumulation of stresses crises and how families adapt to them Violence in a relationship Framinghton 8 spent 8 years in prison made domestic violence into a social problem Violence is a social problem because 1 It affects large numbers of people 2 Violence is not completely random 1 in 4 women are victims of domestic violence Defined as violence b t those who are physically sexual intimate such as Can encompass physical economic sexual or psychological abuse 85 of o 1 3 million women are physically assaulted by a intimate partner spouses or partners victims are women every year o Females who are b t 20 24 are at the greatest risk o Can result in homicide almost a 1 3 of female homicide victims are killed by an intimate partner o 70 80 of intimate partner homicides no matter which partner was killed the man abused the woman before the murder o Each year there are more then 18 million mental health care visits o It costs over 5 8 billion dollars each year o Missed time from work of victims loose 8 million days of paid work How we define measure intimate partner violence Frequency of intimate partner violence Femicide The killing of women One of the most chronically under reported crimes Types of intimate partner violence Common couple violence violence arises out of a specific argument Intimate terrorism Using threats psychological tactics popping up in different places very controlling Violence resistance non legal term for self defense Mutual violent control both partners are controlling 1 in 12 women have been stalked in their lifetime 81 of these women are stalked by a current or former partner 1 in 45 men Stalking and cyberstalking Consequences of intimate partner violence Death Physical scars Physiological scars PTSD 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 more severe 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 Dating Violence college aged women are at the greatest risk 16 24 Rape and Sexual Assault All about control Rape on college campuses o Date rape Drugs Drugs that are used to immobilize a person to facilitate an assault Alcohol is 1 date rape drug Child abuse an attack on a child that results in an injury violates our Child Abuse and Neglect social norms Types of child abuse 800 000 are victims each year and 2 000 die Corporal punishment spanking Neglect 1 form fail to meet child s basic needs Physical sexual Psychological emotional Elder Abuse Defined as the abuse of an elderly person that can include physical abuse sexual abuse psychological abuse financial or material exploitation and neglect Micro level explanations The intergenerational transmission of violence a cycle of violence that is passed down to dependents Stress explanation Macro level explanations Patriarchy violence is more prevalent Cultural norms support violence Norms of family privacy A synthesis power and control Power and control wheel book Violence and the law Domestic Violence shelters Defined as a temporary safe house for a woman with or without children who is escaping an abusive relationship Treatment programs for abusers Chapter 12 The process of divorce How common is divorce It depends on how we measure it Crude divorce rate of divorce per 1 000 people in the population Refined divorce rate a measure of divorce based on the of divorces that occur out of every 1 000 married woman Historical trend refined divorce rate random spikes and some dips is now stabilized and decrease since 1980s Why do people get divorced Micro level factors Parental divorce o Intergenerational transmission of divorce a pattern noted my researchers that people who s parents divorced are also more likely to divorce Sex of children daughters increase risk Age at marriage young age is in highest risk category Parental status less likely to divorce if you have young children Nonmarital childbearing Race ethnicity Hispanics Asians are less likely Education Degree of similarity between spouses opposites more likely Couples age s rises during adulthood and decreases during eldery Income level divorce is more common among people with lower income Macro structural factors Level of socioeconomic development less developed countries lower rates of divorce Religion more religious lower dr Divorce laws o No fault divorce a divorcing couple can go before a judge without one party having to blame the other Women s status employment more woman file for divorce then men do Attitudes toward divorce Should divorce be easier or more difficult to obtain Experiencing divorce The phases of separation Legal separation a binding agreement signed by both spouses that provides details about child support o 1 Pre separation benefits of being together less fighting o 2early separation talking logistics whose moving out o 3 mid separation realities of daily living set in feeling no benefits tucking kids in may consider separating divorce o 4 Late separation phase legal separation or they file for
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