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Card 6
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In families with many disadvantages (e.g. single parents, disabled children…), grandparents are especially likely to provide emotional, practical and financial support
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Card 7
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Childhood is disappearing because children now have the same rights as adults and can access the adult world through the media.
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Card 8
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In many cases men were just “helping” women so many men were neither taking responsibility nor doing as much work as their female partners. Most women saw domestic work as their job and got little help from their partner. Women doing a lot more ”in
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Card 9
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Men and women have biologically determined roles in the family
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Card 10
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. There have been many government policies and EU directives aimed at encouraging more women to work even if they have children
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Card 11
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Domestic violence is still being used by males to exert power over females. Domestic violence a hidden problem – underreported and not being dealt with properly by the police.
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Card 12
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There are four main functions of the family: sexual, reproductive, educational and economic.
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Card 13
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Families are ‘units of consumption’. In other words, they spend their money on the goods that are produced in a capitalist society and in doing so, help the rich stay rich
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Card 14
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The family is the ‘universal institution’, found in some form in nearly every society of the world.
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Card 15
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Men are not good at expressing themselves emotionally – concentrated on their paid work – “emotionally distant”. Many women operating a “triple shift” – paid work, domestic work and “emotion work”. Emotion work is often not noticed by men – seen by w