Chapter 5: Family Problems
Learning Objectives
After studying this chapter, you will be able to do the following:
1.Give examples of how family forms and norms vary around the world.
2 Describe at least five trends, patterns, and/or variations in contemporary U.S. families, and differentiate between the marital decline and marital resiliency perspectives.
3 Explain how structural functionalism, conflict theory, and symbolic interaction help us understand the family institution, divorce, and domestic violence and abuse.
4 Discuss the social causes of divorce and its consequences for children and adults.
5 Identify the different forms of abuse in relationships, and describe the effects of violence and abuse on victims and the factors that contribute to domestic violence and abuse.
6 Discuss strategies to strengthen families, including expanding the definition of family, workplace and economic supports, relationship literacy education, covenant marriage, divorce mediation, divorce education programs, and domestic violence and abuse prevention and policies.
7 List ways in which divorce and domestic violence impact society and identify what many family scholars say is the “fundamental issue” in solving family problem
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