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Families
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1. What are four major causes of family stress?
Answer: The four major causes of family stress are major upheavals, major life transitions, chronic stressors, and occasional stressors. Major upheavals include war and natural disasters. These types of upheavals affect a lot of people at the same time. Major life transitions include acute transitions. These transitions affect some members of the family but not all the members of the family. A few examples include the death of a family member, the birth of a family member, or someone moving away from home. Chronic stressors consist of a disability, an illness (either physical or mental), unemployment, or imprisonment. Occasional stressors are those such as car accidents, burglaries, and family trips.
2. What is acculturative stress as it relates to immigrant families?
Answer: Acculturative stress is the stress that immigrant families experience as they attempt to adapt to a new culture with new customs and traditions. While children have the easiest time as they are socialized in the new culture through school, adults are more prone to isolation. Grandparents are particularly susceptible to staying alone for long durations.
3. What are the trends in Canada regarding the common-law family?
Answer: Common law families include families where two people (of the same or the opposite gender) live in the same household but are not legally married. The common-law union is the fastest-growing family category in Canada. The number of common law families increased from 6.3 per cent to 21.3 per cent between 1981 and 2016.
4. What are some long-term strategies to reduce or eliminate family violence?
Answer: Treatments aimed at reducing alcohol and drug abuse will be one such solution. Creating a family-friendly society by increasing social support to working parents with small children will be another step required. Greater government investment in daycare for areas with a large percentage of vulnerable children will also assist in eliminating or reducing violence.
5. What is the double-shift?
Answer: The double shift is a term used to describe women who take on paid work outside of the family home and do domestic work while at home. The term second shift has a similar connotation of doing two jobs, where one is paid and the other one is unpaid. Researcher Andrea Doucet shows that while modern families have attempted to have an egalitarian household, Canadian families are far from having an equal division of domestic labour.