Exam 14: Rebuilding: Family Life Following Divorce

In a study of nearly 5,000 post-divorce women, the investigators found that among parents of preschool children _____.

After a divorce, this type of couple breaks off any contact with one another. In some instances, one partner (typically the man) literally "disappears," and thus leaves the mother with the entire burden and responsibility of reorganizing and redefining the family.

Men do better emotionally post-divorce than do women.

Ongoing stressful conditions associated with divorce exert negative health effects on a person, causing such things as a lowered ability to fight infections and an increased risk to cancer.

This type of divorced parents is similar to angry associates, except they are incapable of coparenting.

During and after divorce, mothers often act as gatekeepers for their children. How has this affected post-divorce relationships between fathers and children?

Children and adolescents may often act out when going through a divorce, typically through aggressive misbehaviors, noncompliance, disobedience, delinquency, increased absences from school, and increased aggressiveness. This is known as _____.

Adults must understand the common challenges children face as they enter into this new family system. Which of the following is NOT listed as a challenge common to children adjusting to stepfamilies?

How does a child's involvement with his/her father affect their post-separation experience?

Women have stronger, more intimate social support networks than do men and turn to these rather than to a dating partner for intimacy and support.

Custodial mothers are more likely to be of what race?

Remarriage is a process that is associated with three different developmental stages. Name and briefly describe each stage.

How are family-member loyalty, bonding, and cohesion different in a stepfamily when compared to a typical nuclear family?

Following divorce, women rely more on their dating partners for intimacy and support than do men.

Children of divorce may express emotional problems such as worry, feelings of unhappiness, anxiety, depression, distress, guilt, and poor self-concept. Children of divorced families have been shown to have a lower concept of self, as well as a lower sense of well-being. This is known as _____.

Due to the increasing incidence of stepfamilies, there have been attempts over the years to soften the terminology and instead use other terms that do not carry the negative connotation. Which of the following is NOT an example listed by the text?

Sometimes referred as the "cement" child, this child is one born to the remarried couple.

Research suggests that instability in remarriages is the result of a breakdown in three areas. Which one of the following is NOT one of these areas?

Remarriages last an average of ________ years.

During the ________ stage of development, which takes most families about three to five years to complete, the family becomes a more cohesive unit and functions less along strictly biological lines.