Types of Families
A mother, father, and children living together.
What is a nuclear family?
These family members involvement has been found to predict children's mental health and social competence.
What are fathers?
These interactions are influenced by beliefs about what children are like and how they should be treated.
What are parent-child interactions?
This is a general approach to socializing children that includes the amount of warmth, communication, and control parents provide.
What are parenting styles?
What is resilience?
What is an extended family?
In traditionally underrepresented groups these family members are more likely to be directly involved in child-rearing duties.
What are grandparents?
What are cultural experiences?
This parenting style encourages children to speak their minds and share ideas, with parents making firm decisions about punishment and rules.
What is an authoritative parenting style?
Risk factors, calamitous circumstances that threaten healthy family functioning, are not these.
What are minor day-to-day difficulties?
Children in these families express concerns about how their family will be accepted by peers.
What is gay and lesbian families?
Fathers are more likely to engage in this children's activity.
What is physical play?
What is fragile and vulnerable?
Children under this parenting style are less independent, have poor relationships with peers, and can be either submissive or aggressive.
What is an authoritarian parenting style?
More than 1.5 million children are affected by this risk factor, where the emotional state of parents can be a protective factor.
What is divorce?
Other than single parenthood, this has a negative affect on children's development in single-parent families.
What is poverty?
Interactions with these family members promotes language and cognitive development.
What are older siblings?
Beliefs about this leads to greater expectations for mature behavior.
What is poverty?
This parenting style does not set rules for children and strives to create an environment of complete freedom. Children under this parenting style are less competent socially and intellectually, and are less independent.
What is a permissive-indulgent parenting style?
Homeless children who have more protective factors, such as being securely attached to their parent, being well cared for, and regularly attending school.
What is high functioning homeless children?
What is the inability of foster parents to control the child's behavior?
These types of older siblings are more likely to be assigned care taking roles.
What are older sisters?
This has caused many African American parents to adopt goals of early self-sufficiency and achievement?
What are beliefs about oppression?
This parenting style is more common in non-Western cultures, and is more effective in these cultures as well.
What is an authoritarian parenting style?
A teacher-made protective factor that allow children in crisis to communicate fears, confusion, and sadness.
What is providing classroom activities that encourage expression of feelings?