FRHD 3040- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 44 pages long!)

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Family Relations and Human Development
• Course: FRHD 3040
• Professor: David Green

Document Summary

Help families develop and maintain positive and supportive relationships. The word family mental pictures and associations both unique to use and shared with others. New kinds of emotional, financial and living arrangements challenging traditional concept of family. All members of a particular census family live in the same dwelling. A couple may be of opposite or same sex. Grandchildren living with their grandparents but with no parents present also constitute and census family. Marriage and parenthood- rite of passage (adulthood, maturity, respectability, authority within community) Increase in divorce- restrictions and concerns about gender equity. More equitable family laws (women and children) Family policies: gender, social class, ethnicity, jurisdiction. Diverse caregivers: cooperative parenting or alloparenting. Marriage systems: polygamy, polygyny, polyandry, monogamy, arranged marriages, free choice marriages, group marriages. Hobbesian perspective (20th century: ta(cid:373)i(cid:374)g of the (cid:272)hild"s (cid:449)ill, religious and cultural mandate, miniature monarchy, unquestioned obedience of children, parents are responsible for making sure children are properly trained.