Part 1) There are five most commonly recognized individual, couple, and family crisis events: physical illness, mental illness, an extramarital affair, unemployment, substance abuse, and death of a loved one. While many couples or families experience these stressors throughout their lives, not all deal with them well. For this post I want you to select one of the stressors above and reflect on the possible ways that a family can handle such a stressful event. Please describe and discuss one positive and productive strategy to handle your chosen stressor, and one harmful way to respond to it. In your discussion, please focus on the family as a unit rather than on individual family members’ responses.
Part 2) Answer the fallowing question based on chapter 12.
1) The author argues that as the consequence of high imprisonment rates, in some communities there are fewer than 62 men for every 100 women. True or false?
2) Reading 30 Unmarried with Children, Katheryn Edin and Maria Kefalas
The authors argue that poor young women will continue having children at a younger age and while still unmarried until what changes take place?
3) Reading 31 Violence Against Women or Family Violence? Current Debates and Future Directions Demie Kurz
The author states that in domestic violence, there is an important difference between research that focuses on ‘wife abuse’ and ‘spouse abuse.’ What is it?
4) Reading 31 Violence Against Women or Family Violence? Current Debates and Future Directions Demie Kurz
The author concludes that domestic violence must be understood in the context of power differences in male-female relationships within a family. What does she mean?
