7. Family: Early and Enduring Influences Flashcards
authoritarian parenting
A child-rearing style that is harsh, unresponsive, and rigid and tends to use power-assertive methods of control.
authoritative parenting
A child-rearing style that is warm, responsive, and involved and sets reasonable limits and expects appropriately mature behavior from children.
coparenting
How parents work together as a team, which can be cooperative, hostile, or unbalanced.
extended family
A unit of people that includes relatives such as grandparents, aunts, uncles, nieces, and nephews as well as members of the nuclear family.
family system
A group of related people composed of inter- dependent members and subsystems; changes in the behavior of one member of the family affect the functioning of the other members.
joint legal custody
A form of postdivorce child custody in which both parents retain and share responsibility for decisions regarding the child’s life, although the child usually resides with one parent.
joint physical custody
A form of postdivorce child custody in which parents make decisions together regarding their child’s life and also share physical custody so that the child lives with each parent for about half the time.
nuclear family
Parents and their children living together.
permissive parenting
A child-rearing style that is lax and inconsistent and encourages children to express their impulses freely.
rituals
Family activities involving formal religious observances and family celebrations.
routines
Day-to-day activities such as making dinner or washing the dishes.
socialization
The process by which parents and others teach children the standards of behavior, attitudes, skills, and motives deemed appropriate for their society.
sole custody
A form of postdivorce child custody in which the child is exclusively with either the mother or the father.
transactional
Ongoing interchanges between social partners such as a parent and child across time that result in modifications of the social behavior of each.
uninvolved parenting
A child-rearing style in which parents are indifferent and neglectful and focus on their own needs rather than those of their children.
