Bonus
Scientific study of children from conception to adolescence
What is Child Development?
All of the conditions and situations that surround and affect a child (nurture)
A) a couple and their dependent children, regarded as a basic social unit
B) includes custodial parent and noncustodial parent; biological parents do not live together/do not keep in contact
C) legal custody of a child or children that is shared by both parents after divorce or separation
A) Nuclear Families
B) Single Parent Families
C) Join Custody Families
state funded or private agency licensed by the state to handle adoptions
What is adoption agency?
A) Time a woman takes off from work for the birth or adoption of a child
B) Time a man takes off from work for the birth or adoption of a child
A) Maternity Leave
B) Paternity Leave
Prenatal, Neonatal, Infancy, Toddler, Preschool, School-Age, Adolescence
What is Individual Life Cycle: Child Development Stages
All of the traits that a child inherits from blood relatives (nature)
What is Heredity?
A) including grandparents, aunts, uncles, and other relatives, who all live nearby or in one household
B) a family that is formed on the remarriage of a divorced or widowed person and that includes one or more children
C) A couple/single parent with nonbiological children
A) Extended families
B) Step families
C) Families with adopted children
adoptions in which a person, such as a lawyer or physician, works out the details between the birth and adoptive parents
What is independent adoption?
Decisions couples make about the desired number of children and spacing of children
What is Family Planning?
Better understand yourself
Be a responsible parent
Work with children
Protect children’s rights
What are the benefits of studying children?
Positive - meeting new people, new school, taking a test
Tolerable - parental divorce, serious illness or death of a loved one
Becomes toxic without proper support
Toxic - family and community violence
Results in physical and mental health problems
What is stress?
family in which an adult provides a temporary home for a child who cannot live with their birth parents; goal is reunification
What is Foster Families?
adoption in which adoptive parents pay money other than for medical needs and legal fees that are approved by state law
A) Main objective is to make children completely obedient. Expect children to obey with little or no explanation.
B) Give children almost no guidelines or rules. Worry that children will be unhappy or feel unloved if they say “no”.
C) Caregivers set some rules but allow children some freedom. Often use induction method of discipline. These children tend to learn self-discipline in a positive, encouraging setting
A) Authoritarian
B) Permissive
C) Authoritative
A) Caregivers use or threaten to use some form of physical punishment. Research shows that physical punishment is not effective and carries negative long-term effects
B) Caregivers threaten children with being unloved or suggest some form of parent/child separation. Many experts consider this to be emotional abuse
C) Caregivers discipline their children by reasoning and explaining to them why they should or should not use certain behaviors. This technique tends to create children who have better self-control, display more concern for others, and take responsibility for their own failures.
A) Power-assertive
B) Love-withdrawl
C) Induction
Experiences characterized by high levels of negative stress
What is trauma?
family in which a child(ren) is placed with nonbiological adults; it is possible for parents to gain custody again.
adults are often chosen by a child's biological parent/usually has close ties to the family
What is Families with Guardians?
adoption in which the identity of the birth parents and adoptive parents are not revealed to each other
What is closed adoption?
Resources parents use to meet child-related costs that could have been used to meet other goals.
- forgone income
- forgone career opportunities
- sick days used for caring for sick children
What are indirect costs of having a child?
Law that protects the right of the workers of large companies to take up to 12 weeks of unpaid leave per year for various family-related reasons
What is the Family and Medical Leave Act?
- growth and development are constant
- growth and development are continuous and gradual
- growth and development happen in sequenced steps
- growth and development happen at different rates
- growth and development are interrelated
What are the principles of growth and development?
care of children by relatives other than the parents; most often the grandparents.
these family heads often do not have legal rights as guardian
What is Kin Care?
adoption that reveals some degree of communication between birth parents and adoptive families
What is open adoption?
Train children to live as part of the larger social group
Develop language, beliefs, attitudes, values, rituals
What is Socialization?