Differentiate between marital quality and marital happiness

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Discussion 1: Marital Happiness and Marital Quality

Differentiate between marital quality and marital happiness. In your opinion can a couple have marital happiness without marital quality? Why? Do you feel marital quality is enhanced or deterred when the first baby arrives? Explain.

Discussion 2: Social Construction of Gender

Compare and contrast gender stratification in the family structures of the 18th century North American colonies and/or 19th century America with the gendered family arrangements of the U.S. in 2011. Identify and explain positive or negative elements of gender identity in these family structures. In your analysis, be sure to consider all the ramifications of gender. For example, how have inequalities between men and women shaped work-family conflict, domestic violence, care for aging parents, cohabitation, and/or marriage/divorce/remarriage and the evolution of stepfamilies? Do you think women's positions in the family have remained more or less the same, improved over time, declined over time, or a combination? How have men's family roles evolved over time? Have they become more or less responsible for the welfare of their families? Or have their responsibilities simply changed? Have men also been victims of gender stratification?

Discussion 3: Family Institutional Strength

Is the American family today a weak or strong institution? Is it a bulwark against potentially destructive forces in the outside society, or is it overwhelmed by those forces? Base your response on a careful analysis of the interaction between American families and at least three of the following six social forces:

Racial and ethnic identity
Social class
Economic change since the 1970s

Discussion 4: Race, Gender and Immigration in Families

Discuss challenges that immigrant and racial/ethnic families face as they integrate into middle class American society. Identify and discuss factors which can cause conflict among the different generations of these families, and between these families and American social institutions dominated by the elite and the middle class. How do you think these conflicts can be reasonably resolved? In what ways do these diverse families "go mainstream"? What are the divergent paths along which they develop?

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