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| Man and Women marry and have children |
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| People with or without blood ties or legal ties, feel they belong together and want to self define themselves as a family. |
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| Political Debate Surrounding Family - Conservative |
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Regard to the traditional family as the very foundation of society that instills basic values, brings people together and defines a way of life.
**Emphasizes the importance of committed marriages between members of the opposite sex (not divorcing). |
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| Political Debate Surrounding Family - Liberal |
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| Basically celebrate individual freedoms different trends/definitions of family |
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| Political Debate Surrounding Family - Radical |
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3 ways it replaces definiton of family:
1)Feels the traditional family benefits class and inequality because of this passing from generation to generation
2) Feels traditional family perpetuates gender inequality, since it continues the trend of men’s dominance over women
3)They feel the traditional family perpetuates social inequality because of this idea that traditional values around the family only recognize a particular type of family which is marriage between a man and a woman. And basically their social orientation and legal marriages are limited to opposite sex couples
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Argue we that we need to move away from a traditional form of family and to a communal based living society |
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| Sources of change to the family - Women's Employment |
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| o Has been a source of one of the most significant changes to the family as well as significant conflict around the shifting and changing of roles |
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| Arlie Hochschild – “second shift” |
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| Women works at a job (first work shift) then goes home and starts their (second work shift). |
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| Sources of change to the family - Divorce |
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| • Was typically considered scandalous and unheard of and around the 1920s when women began working the work force and had a decline in the number of the children that they had, the term of Divorce began to be viewed differently |
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Before no-fault divorce couples could only divorce if someone committed adultery, abandonment, or something was done wrong.
**Made the process of divorce more fair and equitable. |
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| Effects of divorce on Men & Women |
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| that the living standard went up after divorce while the living standard of women (& more likely women & their kids) went down after divorce |
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| Allen Parkman – “cultural capital” |
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| Skill development, training, will increase a person’s earning power. |
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| Divorce effects on Children |
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One parent generally effects primary custody and that parent is usually the mother.
**Financially support for the parent who has custody is often times minimal
***Living in poverty
*Decreased self-esteem and aspirations over a lifetime
*Small children react the most and emotionally withdrawing or acting out at school. |
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| In Louisiana, Missouri and Arkansas, if you have martial problems you have to seek conseluing, no divorces unless there has been abandonment or some sort of fault in the marriage. |
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| Argues that violence becomes a part of relationships because men use it to control their female partners |
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| Functionalist Perspective of Family & Arguement |
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See the family as one of the most important institutions that contribute to the overall smooth running of society
ARGUE:
Look at divorce as a social problem as a weakening of the family and the weakening of society overall. |
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| Interactionist Perspective of Family |
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1)See the family as the source of ongoing social interaction for the members of the family
2)Families that provide a sense of love and guidance for their children |
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| Conflict Perspective of Family |
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**Look at the way in which family is structured and the way it functions in our society
**Is problematic due to social inequality and that family helps to reproduce class inequality since it encourages people to pass down wealth from generation to generation |
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| Family Violence Perspective |
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It views violence in more gender neutral terms like domestic violence.
***Tends to just look at physical violence and not at other things like psychological abuse and verbal abuse. |
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