Would you undergo medical treatments to increase your life span to 120 years? Why or why not? How does the concept of ageism impact marriages and families today? Provide at least two examples.

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Week 14 DB Families Later in LIfe Chapter 16

Select an option from the list below:

Option 1:  Would you undergo medical treatments to increase your life span to 120 years? Why or why not?

Option 2:  How does the concept of ageism impact marriages and families today? Provide at least two examples.

Option 3:   How have the family roles changed for the elders in your family? How should families care for their elders?

 

Benokraitis, N. V., & Buehler, C. (2018). Marriages and Families (9th ed.). Pearson Education (US). https://online.vitalsource.com/books/9780134736143

Would you undergo medical treatments to increase your life span to 120 years? Why or why not? How does the concept of ageism impact marriages and families today? How have the family roles changed for the elders in your family? How should families care for their elders?

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Week 14 DB Families Later in LIfe Chapter 16

Select an option from the list below:

Option 1:  Would you undergo medical treatments to increase your life span to 120 years? Why or why not?

Option 2:  How does the concept of ageism impact marriages and families today? Provide at least two examples.

Option 3:   How have the family roles changed for the elders in your family? How should families care for their elders?

 

Benokraitis, N. V., & Buehler, C. (2018). Marriages and Families (9th ed.). Pearson Education (US). https://online.vitalsource.com/books/9780134736143

Under what circumstances would you begin to consider breaking up (if not married) or separating and divorcing if you are married?  What would be the deal-breakers? How does this compare to the literature on divorce?

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Divorce

There are about 1 million divorces in the United States a year. Divorce is a legal ending of a marriage contract. There has been a declining divorce rate over the last several years (Knox, 2018).

“Divorce isn’t such a tragedy. A tragedy’s staying in an unhealthy marriage, teaching your children the wrong things about love. Nobody ever died of divorce.” – Jennifer Weiner, Fly Away Home (Knox, 2018)

OPTION A:  After reading over the chapter and additional readings, post your position on the following questions:

[1] Contemplation Phase: Under what circumstances would you begin to consider breaking up (if not married) or separating and divorcing if you are married?

[2] Critical Ending Factors: What would be the deal-breakers? How does this compare to the literature on divorce?

[3} Methodology:  How would you execute the breakup or separation? What are the steps involved and how would this be communicated?

[4} Evaluation: What are the pros and cons of breaking up/separating/divorcing?

or

OPTION B:  After reading over the chapter and additional readings, post your position on the following issue:

There are more positive benefits to getting a divorce on children than negative outcomes. Or There are more negative outcomes to getting a divorce on children than positive benefits. What evidence in the literature can you find to support your case?  Do not just speak about the anecdotal evidence in your household.

REVIEW THE RUBRIC PRIOR TO AND AFTER FINALIZING YOUR POSTS

Criteria 1: Posts utilized e-text and other academic resources in APA-Style. [Weight: 15%]

  • Did I provide APA-style references at the end of my post? (*required)
  • Did I provide APA-style in-text citations where appropriate? (*required)

Resource: https://www.scribbr.com/citation/generator/apa/

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What success strategies are you employing to help you effectively manage the demands of working and family work? Who performs a majority of the household chores and why? How do the family members feel about the daily management of household chores?

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Week 11: Field Assignment – Four Interviews on Work-Family Life

Many families are struggling financially although more members of the household are participating in the labor market.  Some of the constraints facing families are unemployment, low wages, workplace inequality, family violence, and limited family leave (Benokraitis, 2015).

Participants:  Identify the demographics of four participants.

Method:   For this exercise, ask four individuals the same four questions from the list below.

OPTIONS: Select 4 Questions:

  1. What are your experiences with role strain, role overload, or role conflicts related to the demands of earning a living and managing the home? [Role strain refers to the difficulties that individuals have in carrying out the multiple responsibilities attached to a particular role. Role overload occurs when the total prescribed activities of one or more roles are greater than the individual can handle. Role conflict occurs when two or more roles conflict with each other.]
  2. What success strategies are you employing to help you effectively manage the demands of working and family work?
  3. Who performs a majority of the household chores and why? How do the family members feel about the daily management of household chores?
  4. Under what circumstances would you consider a commuter marriage? What are the pros and cons of a commuter marriage?
  5. How have you or members of your family managed or coped with unemployment or underemployment?
  6. What types of occupations and work shifts do you and the working members of your family have?
  7. Who currently earns the most money in the household? What rights or privileges come with earning the most money?
  8. What family and work policies help (or might help) you balance the demands of work and family?

Exercise Short-Essay Format: This short answer must be at least 750 words or 3-4 pages in length (not including cover and reference page) and must be double-spaced, 12-point font and submitted on a Microsoft Word document through Turnitin.  Only Turnitin submissions will be accepted.

What published evidence can you find to support your ranking? How do these hypotheses explain your experience?

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Week 11 Discussion – Why Do Women Do More Household Chores?

READING: For American couples, gender gaps in sharing household responsibilities persist amid pandemic (Barraso, A., 2021)

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“Whether or not women are employed outside the home, wives, or cohabitating, most women in heterosexual relationships report doing more unpaid family labor than men report on average..Husbands typically spend more hours in paid employment and fewer hours on housework…Social scientists have proposed alternative hypotheses for why women do more unpaid household labor ” (Lamanna et al., 2021).

RANK these four hypotheses from 1st (Best Explanation for Most People) to 4th and provide a rationale.  What published evidence can you find to support your ranking?  How do these hypotheses explain your experience?  Use your text and other resources. Provide in-text citations and references. 

  • Hypothesis 1: Partners’ relative earnings influence their division of household labor.
  • Hypothesis 2: Gender roles influence partners’ division of household labor.
  • Hypothesis 3: The partner with more power in the relationship can escape undesirable household work.
  • Hypothesis 4: The relative time available to each partner influences the division of household labor.

Based on your experience and research, how would you explain the joys and tribulations of having a child with a couple who is thinking about having a child or even a second child? Provide a balanced description of what new parents can expect with the birth of a child or second child and the expanded role of parenting.

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This week you get a choice of either option A or B. Make sure you review the revised grading rubric before you post or reply.

Option A: The Choice to Have a Child – A Preview of the Pros and Cons of Parenting

“You saw earlier that there are benefits and costs in having children. The same is true in raising them: “Parenting varies, being enormously satisfying and seemingly easy at times as well as confounding, difficult, and burdensome at other times” (Arendell, 1997: 22). Many parents are happier when taking care of their children than during 15 other common daily activities such as watching TV, cooking, working, and socializing with friends (Nelson et al., 2013). Parenting, however, does not come naturally. It’s neither instinctive nor innate. Especially with a first child, most of us muddle through by trial and error. Advice on the physical care of a baby can be valuable, but there’s no template that ensures a parent’s smooth passage to parenthood. Transitions, like having a child, involve stress and strain, in addition to joy and excitement.” (Benokraitis & Buehhler, 2018)

Benokraitis, N. V., & Buehler, C. (2018). Marriages and Families (9th ed.). Pearson Education (US). https://online.vitalsource.com/books/9780134736143

Post:  Based on your experience and research, how would you explain the joys and tribulations of having a child with a couple who is thinking about having a child or even a second child?  Provide a balanced description of what new parents can expect with the birth of a child or second child and the expanded role of parenting.  Provide trend data on what many parents experience (not just what happens in your household.)

OR

Option B: The Choice to Get Help Having A Child – Infertility Treatments

“The most common medical treatments for infertility are drugs, artificial insemination, in-vitro fertilization, and surrogacy. About 17 percent of women and 9 percent of men between the ages of 25 and 44 have used infertility services, including evaluations or tests, medical advice, and ovulation drugs. Treatment is most common among older women, those who are white, and people with higher education and income levels (Kessler et al., 2013; Chandra et al., 2014).”  (Benokraitis & Buehhler, 2018)

Post: If you were unable to have a child or another child, which approach to infertility would you consider choosing? Provide your rationale based on the research you were able to discover. Describe the prevalence of infertility.  Provide the pros and cons, statistics, policies, laws, opportunities in your area, costs related to your infertility intervention of choice.

Based on the survey data revealed in three articles, what are the most important choices (2), constraints (2), and changes(2) related to the rising share of singles and cohabitants in the US?

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Instructions:  For this week’s discussion, select and read three out of the four articles from the list below.  Take notes on two changes, two choices, and two constraints related to singlehood and cohabitation in the United States.    

PICK 3 ARTICLES ONLY – Required Readings (cite by name and date)

Your Initial Post must address all 3 questions below: 

  1. Based on the survey data revealed in three articles, what are the most important choices (2), constraints (2), and changes(2) related to the rising share of singles and cohabitants in the US?
  2. How does this trend data compare or contrast with your own personal experiences (or others you know) with singlehood and cohabitation?
  3. What are two recommendations you would give to others, your current or future children, or family members about the choice to be single or to cohabitate with a partner?

Rubric Check List

Did your post have at least 100-200 words? The post is very detailed, with quality responses.

Did your posts have any grammatical, spelling, or punctuation errors?

Did you edit your work in WORD or use www.grammarly.com first?

Did you analyze the readings for changes, constraints, and choices?

Did you select and discuss three readings?

Did you use appropriate in-text citations along the way?

Did you provide a complete list of the three articles as references in APA style at the end of your post?  See https://www.scribbr.com/category/apa-style/Links to an external site.

 

Write an essay on the possible effects of parental education and level of attachment with children.

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Affects of Parental Education and Level of Attachment with Children

Write an essay on the possible effects of parental education and level of attachment with children.

Explain the top five most important points revealed in the Carter & Porges (2013) article. What are your biggest takeaways about the role of biochemical processes when you think about your past or current experiences with falling in love (and out of love) and attaching to a partner?

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Biological Explanations of Love 

“Researchers using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to study brain activity have found an interplay between hormones, chemicals, and neurotransmitters (chemical messengers in the brain) in creating the state we call love. When lovers claim that they feel “high,” it’s probably because they are. For example, dopamine is released when people do something highly pleasurable, whether it’s falling in love or taking drugs. Norepinephrine, another stimulant, can produce sleeplessness, elation, and euphoria. And during the early stages of emotional attachment, oxytocin promotes trust and other positive feelings. Thinking about one’s lover also maintains blood glucose levels and increases positive feelings (Fisher et al., 2010; Schneiderman et al., 2012; Fredrickson, 2013; Stanton et al., 2014; Gottman and Gottman, 2017).

As infatuation wanes and attachment grows, another group of chemicals called endorphins takes over. Unlike stimulants, endorphins calm the mind, eliminate pain, and reduce anxiety. This helps explain why people in long-lasting relationships report feeling comfortable and secure (Walsh, 1991; Fisher, 2004; Brizendine, 2006).

The loss of a loved one may be linked to physical problems. According to brain images and blood tests, traumatic breakups can release stress hormones that travel to cells in one part of the brain. The resulting stress can bring on chest pain and even heart attacks (“a broken heart”) (Najib et al., 2004; Wittstein et al., 2005).” (Benokraitis & Buehler, 2018, p. 159)

Source: Benokraitis, N. V., & Buehler, C. (2018). Marriages and Families (9th ed.). Pearson Education (US). https://online.vitalsource.com/books/9780134736143Links to an external site.

ARTICLE REVIEW #2

The purpose of this week’s article review essay is to help you demonstrate your understanding of the biochemistry underlying love and attachments. While your Discussion reveals some key psychological models of love, here we begin to focus on the roles of hormones, neurotransmitters, and peptides that allow you to lust, attract, attach and love others.  What’s going on inside of you and why does it change?  Let’s begin by reading these two articles:

Articles (use these exact citations in your references list) 

Love, Actually: The science behind lust, attraction, and companionship. (2020, June 19). Science in the News. Retrieved September 24, 2022, from https://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2017/love-actually-science-behind-lust-attraction-companionship/Links to an external site.

Carter, C. S., & Porges, S. W. (2013, November 27). The biochemistry of love: an oxytocin hypothesis. EMBO Reports, 14(1), 12–16. https://doi.org/10.1038/embor.2012.191Links to an external site.    

Essay:  Demonstrate your understanding of the biochemistry of love by answering these questions below: 

  • Explain the top five most important points revealed in Love, Actually: The Science Behind Lust, Attraction, and Companionship (2020) article.
  • Explain the top five most important points revealed in the Carter & Porges (2013) article.
  • What are your biggest takeaways about the role of biochemical processes when you think about your past or current experiences with falling in love (and out of love) and attaching to a partner?

 

 

What tactics were used by the perpetrator? What signs do you notice? If you were working with this victim-survivor, how would you frame the conversation to encourage a disclosure? What barriers can you identify to disclosing and seeking support? What risk factors can you identify?

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Intersectionality and building inclusive responses to family violence

Element 2 of the paper needs to be done by you (words 1,500):

Select one of the three new case studies access the following three case studies are segments, take from the Domestic Violence Resource Centre Victoria (DVRCV) Stories Webpage (Case study 1: Ayet’s story; Case Study 2: Leanne’s Story;  Case Study 3: Tina’s Story).

Assessment 3 – Module Case Study Reflections Semester 2, 2022 https://rmit.instructure.com/courses/94769/assignments/732763 2/5

Pick Case study 1: Ayet’s story

Respond to the following questions to support the victim survivor in your case study:

  1. What tactics were used by the perpetrator?
  2. What signs do you notice?
  3. If you were working with this victim-survivor, how would you frame the conversation to encourage a disclosure? Suggest at least two prompting questions to encourage a disclosure. Why did you select these questions? Is there anything you could follow up with if you didn’t receive a disclosure?
  4. What barriers can you identify to disclosing and seeking support?
  5. What risk factors can you identify?
  6. Using the MARAM Framework, what opportunities can you identify for services to work collaboratively? How can this collaboration enhance the safety of the victim-survivor and hold the perpetrator to account?
  7. What referrals would you consider making?
  8. What would you consider including in a Safety Plan?