CH8 Families

Question 1

Parental Monitoring

Answer 1

Supervising an adolescent’s choice of social settings, activities, and friends. Can be seen as solicitation, control and snooping. Has positive outcomes.

Question 2

Parenting Styles

Answer 2

Authoritarian: Restrictive firm limits and control on the adolescent.
Authoritative: Encourages adolescents to be independent but still places limits and controls actions.
Neglectful: The parent is uninvolved.
Indulgent: Highly involved but places few demands or controls on them.

Question 3

Mothers, Fathers, and Coparenting

Answer 3

Mothers center in care giving, teaching activities, teach restrictions on girls autonomy
Fathers are more involved when they have son and do leisure activities, promotes son intelligence
Good Coparenting is linked to prosocial behavior and bad is linked to developmental risk

Question 4

Attachment and Connectedness

Answer 4

Secure attachment increases the chance that the adolescent will be socially competent and will explore the social world in a healthy way.
Insecure attachment children, adolescences avoid the caregiver; dismissing/avoidant attachment, preoccupied/ambivalent attachment, unresolved/disorganized attachment

Question 5

Emerging Adults’ relationships with their parents.

Answer 5

More emerging adults are returning to the family home to live with their parents and both parties should agree on the conditions of returning home beforehand. When adolescences leave home their relationship with parents increase but parents still often provide support

Question 6

Working Parents

Answer 6

The summer months and 3-6 PM are opportunities for adolescents to engage in risky behaviors.

Question 7

Divorced Families

Answer 7

Adjustment problems and negative effects on adolescents.

Question 8

Gay and Lesbian Parents

Answer 8

Considerable diversity among gay and lesbian parents. Few differences from heterosexual families.