Chapter 14 Flashcards
Co parenting
Mutually supporting each other’s parenting behaviors
Child-rearing styles
Are combinations of parenting behaviors that occur over a wide range of situations, creating an enduring child-rearing climate.
Authoritative child-rearing style
The most successful approach-involves high acceptance and involvement, adaptive control techniques, and appropriate autonomy granting
Authoritarian child-rearing style
Is low in acceptance and involvement, high in coercive behavioral control, and low in autonomy granting
Psychological control
In which they attempt to take advantage of children’s psychological needs by intruding on and manipulating their verbal expressions, individuality, and attachments to parents
Permissive child-rearing style
Is warm and accepting, but uninvolved. Permissive parents are either overindulgent or inattentive and, thus, engage in little behavioral control.
Uninvolved child-rearing style
Combines low acceptance and involvement with little behavioral control and general indifference to issues of autonomy
Co regulation
A form of supervision in which parents exercise general oversight while letting children take charge of moment-by-moment decision making
Autonomy
A sense of oneself as a separate, self-governing individual
Extended-family household
In which one or more adult relatives live with the parent-child nuclear family unit, it is a vitals eaters of ethnic minority family life that has enabled many families to rear children successfully, despite severe economic deprivation and prejudice
Self-care children
Who regularly look after themselves for some period of time during after-school hours
Social systems perspective
Viewing the family as a complex set of interacting relationships influenced by the larger social context
