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What is meant by describing the family as a system? - correct answer ✔✔Do describe the family
as a system means that families are dynamic systems involving a complex network of
relationship styles and communication patterns that emerge and change according to the
interaction and development of family members.
What are the benefits or disadvantages associated with different family structures, such as
nuclear, extended, and single parent families? - correct answer ✔✔Nuclear families include
parents (single or not) and their children. Extended families include paren(s), their children, and
other relatives.
What are three key parenting goals shared by parents all over the world, and how do they
impact parenting? - correct answer ✔✔The survival goal: To ensure that their children survive,
by providing for their health and safety
The economic goal: To ensure that their children acquire the skills and other resources needed
to be economically productive adults
The cultural goal: To ensure that their children acquire the basic cultural values of the group
Describe the four parenting styles identified by Baumrind. Be sure to discuss where each style
falls on the dimensions of parenting. - correct answer ✔✔Permissive - Lots of emotional
warmth
Undemanding and little control exercised, Allow children to learn through experience as a result
of indulgence, Neither independence nor obedience stressed
Authoritative - Balance of emotional warmth, behavioral control, and autonomy support.
Demanding but reciprocal relationship, favors reasoning over physical punishment, and
encourages independence.
Authoritarian - Lots of behavioral control. Demanding and controlling, favors punitive methods
over reasoning, stresses obedience over independence.
, Neglect - Lots of autonomy support. Undemanding and little control exercised
Allow children to learn through neglect
Emotionally distant
What is known about the links of parenting styles and child behavior. What are the limitations of
this research? - correct answer ✔✔- Authoritative parents tend to raise children who are, in
general, tend to be more self-reliant and self-controlled and willing to explore compared to
children raised by permissive or authoritarian parents.
- Authoritarian parents tend to raise children that lack social competence, often withdrawing
from social contact, and may lack intellectual curiosity.
- Permissive parents, while they tend to be emotionally warm, they do not demand the same
levels of achievement or standards of behavior from their children.
- Neglectful parents raise children who tend to have lower standards, higher rates of mental
illness, and a lack of sense of self
How do parenting styles differ among parents of different ethnic backgrounds and SES? - correct
answer ✔✔- Parents of different ethnic backgrounds hold different values and belief systems
that influence their parenting styles. For example, cultures, such as Germany, value more
independence talk and play less with their babies. Whereas Indian mothers talk more to their
babies about self control and other's feelings. African American and Chinese American parents
tend to be more authoritarian parents with "no nonsense"
- Parents with lower SES are more stressed and can be more permissive or neglectful parents
because they are focusing on financial hardship or work. They have to take on many roles and
have less time and energy to put into parenting.
What is known about children's development in single parent families and in same-sex parent
families? - correct answer ✔✔Studies of children in single parent families report a number of
behavioral, social, and academic problems. Some say that this is because single parents assume
more parental roles and have higher levels of depressive symptoms and stress, others say that it
is not at all because of the single parent, but because of lack of material resources and
instability. Exposure to poverty and instability are the major factors to blame.
answers already passed
What is meant by describing the family as a system? - correct answer ✔✔Do describe the family
as a system means that families are dynamic systems involving a complex network of
relationship styles and communication patterns that emerge and change according to the
interaction and development of family members.
What are the benefits or disadvantages associated with different family structures, such as
nuclear, extended, and single parent families? - correct answer ✔✔Nuclear families include
parents (single or not) and their children. Extended families include paren(s), their children, and
other relatives.
What are three key parenting goals shared by parents all over the world, and how do they
impact parenting? - correct answer ✔✔The survival goal: To ensure that their children survive,
by providing for their health and safety
The economic goal: To ensure that their children acquire the skills and other resources needed
to be economically productive adults
The cultural goal: To ensure that their children acquire the basic cultural values of the group
Describe the four parenting styles identified by Baumrind. Be sure to discuss where each style
falls on the dimensions of parenting. - correct answer ✔✔Permissive - Lots of emotional
warmth
Undemanding and little control exercised, Allow children to learn through experience as a result
of indulgence, Neither independence nor obedience stressed
Authoritative - Balance of emotional warmth, behavioral control, and autonomy support.
Demanding but reciprocal relationship, favors reasoning over physical punishment, and
encourages independence.
Authoritarian - Lots of behavioral control. Demanding and controlling, favors punitive methods
over reasoning, stresses obedience over independence.
, Neglect - Lots of autonomy support. Undemanding and little control exercised
Allow children to learn through neglect
Emotionally distant
What is known about the links of parenting styles and child behavior. What are the limitations of
this research? - correct answer ✔✔- Authoritative parents tend to raise children who are, in
general, tend to be more self-reliant and self-controlled and willing to explore compared to
children raised by permissive or authoritarian parents.
- Authoritarian parents tend to raise children that lack social competence, often withdrawing
from social contact, and may lack intellectual curiosity.
- Permissive parents, while they tend to be emotionally warm, they do not demand the same
levels of achievement or standards of behavior from their children.
- Neglectful parents raise children who tend to have lower standards, higher rates of mental
illness, and a lack of sense of self
How do parenting styles differ among parents of different ethnic backgrounds and SES? - correct
answer ✔✔- Parents of different ethnic backgrounds hold different values and belief systems
that influence their parenting styles. For example, cultures, such as Germany, value more
independence talk and play less with their babies. Whereas Indian mothers talk more to their
babies about self control and other's feelings. African American and Chinese American parents
tend to be more authoritarian parents with "no nonsense"
- Parents with lower SES are more stressed and can be more permissive or neglectful parents
because they are focusing on financial hardship or work. They have to take on many roles and
have less time and energy to put into parenting.
What is known about children's development in single parent families and in same-sex parent
families? - correct answer ✔✔Studies of children in single parent families report a number of
behavioral, social, and academic problems. Some say that this is because single parents assume
more parental roles and have higher levels of depressive symptoms and stress, others say that it
is not at all because of the single parent, but because of lack of material resources and
instability. Exposure to poverty and instability are the major factors to blame.
