Understanding the Family
The Infant
The Child
The Adolescent
The Adult
100
When parents team up and coordinate their parenting
What is coparenting?
100
The percentage of babies born to unmarried mothers.
What is 40%?
100
These parents often smile at their children and provide affection.
Who are accepting, responsive parents?
100
The capacity to manage one's life without over-dependence on others.
What is autonomy?
100
This is the percentage of adults that choose to marry at some point in their lives.
What is 90%?
200
The theory that states that the family, like the human body, is truly a whole consisting of interrelated parts, each of which affects and is affected by every other part, and each of which contributes to the functioning of the whole.
What is the family systems theory?
200
The effect a third party has on the interactions between two individuals.
What are indirect effects?
200
These parents monitor their children closely, and set rules, and expect their children to follow those rules.
Who are controlling and demanding parents.
200
The overall most successful parenting style.
What is authoritative parenting?
200
Describes the family after the last child has moved out.
What is the empty nest?
300
It typically consists of mother, father, and at least one child.
What is the nuclear family?
300
These would suggest that fathers are not fit to care for infants and young children.
What are gender stereotypes
300
This type of parenting is characterized by low demandingness-control and low acceptance-responsiveness.
What is neglectful parenting?
300
Usually includes disagreements about homework, chores, and disobedience.
What are parent-adolescent conflicts?
300
symbolic figures seen rarely by their grandchildren.
Who are remote grandparents?
400
also called a blended family
What is a reconstituted family?
400
These groups emphasize parenting skills, couple communication, and effective coping strategies
What are couples groups?
400
This model highlights the effects of children on their parents.
What is the child effects model.
400
True or False: bickering decreases as the adolescent gets older.
True
400
Term describing the pressures middle-aged parents face when facing the demands of both younger and older generations simultaneously.
What is the middle generation squeeze?
500
A sequence of changes in family composition, roles, and relationships from the time people marry until they die.
What is the family life cycle?
500
This study confirmed there are differences in the style of parenting.
What is Lamb and Tamis-Lemonada (2004) or Marsiglio et al. (2000)
500
the spirit of competition, jealousy, and resentment towards a brother or sister.
What is sibling rivalry?
500
True or False: most parent-adolescent relationships retain most of the closeness that was present in childhood
True.
500
Psychological distress associated with providing care.
What is caregiver burden?
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