Sociology: Chapter 19.4: Explain how race, gender, and class shape family life

_ of female murders are due to family violence

1/3 of female murders are due to family violence

_ couples have some violence in a given year

1/6 couples have some violence in a given year

african americans and family

13% of pop has the highest percentage of single mothers black families are 3x more likely to be poor than white families blacks suffer due to unemployment since factories fled from the inner-city blacks are less likely to marry and more likely to divorce 72% of children grow up in poverty

divorce rate

40% of american couples divorce

rutledge conclusions:

Americans have high divorce rates and violence due to social structure itself. he blames core values and lack of support net for folks trying to get out of marriages

Which person discusses how displays of wealth irritate the poor?

Zeppelin

most child abusers were

abused as a child themselves

in the cases of incest, 90% of abusers

are men

reasons for high divorce rate

basing marriage solely on erotic passion and romantic love. when the "flame" dies, they might cheat or want a divorce increase in individualism and privacy. couples spend more time apart and argue without having an intermediary in private. women are less dependent on husbands which allows for divorce children are expensive young families and lower class families tend to divorce more often

the agrarian poor could support themselves whereas the modern poor

cannot provide their own sustenance

happiest marriages are

egalitarian where men share household duties

nuclear family results in (bad feeling)

emotional intensity, mixed with alcohol, and rat race feelings can lead to violence

problems of divorce

emotional issues women have healthier coping mechanisms and can recover in 6 months men take a year or longer to recover from divorce legal burdens it is unlikely that the father gets custody of the child community adjustments friends have to favor one person over the other women see a drop in quality of life since they have to take care of a kid men see an increase in quality of life since they don't have to take care of a kid

what kind of kids are better at handling divorce?

empathetic and mature

more than half of divorces

involve parents

what are being more common in divorce settlements?

joint custodys

women who are abused tend to

lack resources, have low self esteem and tend to be dependent on the husband financially

americans have the highest rate of

marriages

marriage tends to be more beneficial to

men

Hispanics are disproportionately poor because

of racist policies dating back to the Mexican-American War

least happiest marriages are

patriarchal women does housework, subservient to husband, and has a full time job

spousal abuse is more likely in

poor minority families since they are more stressed out

as an urban poor person, you are

reminded of your status by the suits and the skyscrapers

women are as likely as men to

start violence, but women are more likely to be seriously harmed

causes of child abuse:

stress, overly high expectations of child, immaturity, alcohol, generational abuse,

judge vs counselor setting a child support fee

the man is more likely to stop paying child support if the support was decided based on a judge.

hispanics and family

they have a greater emphasis on familism which is loyalty to the family unit they lean towards extended families tend to support traditional gender roles since they are usually catholic

how will poor lower class men compensate?

they will act tough

the lower the social class the harder it is

to raise a child. lower class are less likely to marry and more likely to divorce.

73% of family violence occurs

towards women

causes of spousal abuse:

trapped in a marriage, traditional masculinity, social isolation, childhood experiences, american culture encouraging violence and alcoholism

divorce brings long term

trauma if they can remember but not understand

extended family is not common within

upper class marriages

americans have a high rate of family

violence in all of industrial socieities

divorce rates went up

went up by a factor of ten between 1890-1990

58% of child abusers are

women

married women usually feel

worse off than single women