CHAPTER 11 Intimate partner violence Defined as violence between those who are physically and sexually intimate such as spouses or partners o Can encompass physical economic sexual or psychological abuse Domestic abuse is against seniors children basically everyone different from IPV How we define and measure intimate partner violence Conflict tactics scale a scale based on how people deal with disagreements in relationships o Are men or women more likely to b victims Bias and the CTS Frequency of intimate partner violence Femicide the killing of women Types of IPV Common couple violence Intimate terrorism Violent resistance Mutual violent control Stalking and cyperstalking Just understand that there are differences not just what she encountered Copings 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 Date Rape Drugs drugs that are used to immobilize a person to facilitate an assault Violence in gay and lesbian relationships Dating violence Rape and sexual assault Rape on college campuses The most common types of child abuse neglect 71 1 2 physical abuse 16 3 sexual abuse 9 4 other 9 5 psychological maltreatment 7 Child Abuse at attack on a child that results in an injury and violates our 6 medical neglect 2 7 unknown or missing 0 social norms Types of child abuse Corporal Punishment Who Would Abuse Children Consequence of Child Abuse Trafficking Explanations for violence among intimates Micro level explanations passed down to dependents Stress explanations Macro level explanations Patriarchy Cultural norms support violence The recruitment transportation transfer harboring or receipt of persons by means of threat or use of force or other forms of coercion of abduction The intergenerational transmission of violence a cycle of violence that is 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 The treatment programs for abusers CHAPTER 12 THE PROCESS OF DIVORCE How Common Is divorce It depends on how we measure it Crude divorce rate the number of divorces per 1 000 people in the population Historical trends Redefined divorce rate a measure of divorce based on the number of divorces that occur out of every 1 000 married women If you come from a divorced family you re more likely to divorce NOT always true Why do people divorce Level of socioeconomic development Macro structural factors Religion Divorce laws o 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 Erosion The phases of separation 1 honeymoon 2 3 high conflict 4 apathy 5 separation The stations of divorce Legal separation a binding agreement signed by both spouses that provides detail about child support Defined as he interrelated emotional legal economic co parental community and psychic dimensions of divorce which together attempt to capture the complexity of the divorce experience The emotional divorce Legal divorce Economic divorce o The termination of the marriage contract by a state court order o Alimony payment by one partner to the other to support the more depends spouse for a period of time o In Florida you need to be married around typically 11 years in order to get alimony Co Parental divorce o Legal custody a custody agreement where one parent has the legal authority to make important decisions concerning the children after a divorce o Child snatching the act of a noncustodial parent kidnapping his or her child The psychic divorce when they stop looking back and begin to look forward A helping hand divorce mediation o 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 Child support order a legal document delineating the amount and circumstances surrounding the financial support of noncustodial children What are the effects of divorce on 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 Why would I be happier Previously unhappy married couples who did not divorce and who turned their marriages around fell into three broad types o The martial endurance ethic o The martial work ethic marriage is not easy it takes work o The personal happiness ethic Covenant Marriage 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 CHAPTER 13 FAMILY LIVE 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 a growing group repartnering the act of entering into a relationship after a divorce which may lead to cohabitation or marriage o what leads people to marry instead of cohabitating is because they get pregnant Remarriage Power and equity between spouses Satisfaction and stability of remarriages Step Families blended family reconstituted family another term for step family 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 Mutual child ren the child or children born to a couple that has child remarried Residential step child ren a child or children living in the household with a remarried couple more than half of the time Stereotypes of stepfamilies the wicked stepmother Multiple relationships and dynamics Former spouse subsystem Remarried couple subsystem Sibling subsystem How do children fare in stepfamilies Explanations of added risk o Stress and instability o Social capital deprivation Chapter 14 families in middle and later life The demographic revolution Baby boom generation people
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