Chapters 1-6 Flashcards
Nonmaleficence refers to the ethical principle of?
Doing no harm
In some states, a man who is the alleged father of a child can have a limited degree of rights concerning the child.
Putative father
The ethical principle of best interests that requires parents to consider what will be ultimately good for the child is known as?
Beneficence
The ___ indicates the point at which a child becomes an adult for legal purposes.
Age of Majority
Tim and Sharon are going through a divorce. Due to the fact that they have many shared assets and three children to think about, they have decided to each hire a specially trained lawyer, as well as a financial expert and child expert to assist them in their resolution process. Their plan is to avoid litigation altogether by taking this path. Tim and Sharon are taking part in a(n):
Collaborative divorce
The type of custody that refers to where a child will live is called?
Physical custody
Ruth is the non-physical custodian for her two children, Scott and Christine. As mandated by the court, Ruth spends time with them every other weekend. When seeing her children, Ruth is exercising her:
Visitation rights
If parents share joint legal custody, one parent is often designated to be the tiebreaker when they cannot agree on an issue.
True
Co-parenting with limited contact between each parent where communication is usually by e-mail or through a third party may be the safest and preferred way for a child to have access to both parents is called parallel parenting
True
Happening commonly after having children, parents can experience the challenge of attempting to succeed at several competing social roles. This is referred to as:
Role Strain
Two or more people forming the beginning of a new family are referred to as a:
Family creation
Mothers who experience delusions and hallucinations after giving birth, sometimes leading them to harm their children, are likely suffering from:
Postpartum psychosis
Postpartum depression can interfere particularly with which developmental process between children and their parents?
Attachment
A rainbow baby is a baby who?
Is born healthy after its parents have experienced a previous infant loss or miscarriage
A childbirth coach or doula is someone who is qualified to deliver a child during birth.
False
When foster care is provided by the child’s relative, it is called?
Kinship care
Due to potential neglect and parental deprivation early in life, some internationally adopted children exhibit ________, characterized by withdrawn behavior.
Reactive Attachment Disorder
The placement of a child from one racial or ethnic group, with parents of another racial or ethnic group is called:
Transracial adoption
What is a responsibility of parents prenatally?
Many states have criminal laws against pregnant mothers who intentionally use harmful substances
In the foster care system:
Foster parents are screened and trained extensively, depending on each state’s requirements
Linda is a single mother with a six-year-old son. Her son’s father is not involved. However, Linda’s mother helps care for her grandson on a daily basis, and is instrumental in making sure he goes to doctor’s appointments, is enrolled in school, and helps provide for him financially. Linda and her mother are examples of:
Coparents
Coparenting is distinguished by which two factors?
Executive function and emotional attachment
The ecological systems theory is helpful in describing:
The role of different environments in influencing a family system’s functioning
Overall, American parents raise their children to be independent and self-reliant, whereas parents in other parts of the world place more emphasis on duty to family and community. This is an example of which dimension of the parenting role?
Bidirectional relationship
Cohabitation:
Is more common among divorced adults.
Contrary to popular perception, research has shown that:
Blended families face distinct challenges, but are no better or worse off than other family forms
Mary’s mother has been deployed to Afghanistan for four months. Mary feels as though she is losing his mother, and is further concerned by the idea that her mother may be seriously injured or killed during her deployment. Mary is experiencing feelings of:
Ambiguous loss
_____ is a parental approach that focuses on and predominantly uses positive and constructive methods in providing guidance and discipline
Positive parental discipline
In order to prevent the transfer of rights, rank, or money in a morganatic marriage, some individuals partake in:
Left-hand marriages
A binuclear family is typically formed after which of the following takes place?
Parents separate or divorce, forming two new households
Family systems theory describes the parent-child relationship as a(n):
Subsystem
Mark and Kevin offer their children the choice of potatoes or brussel sprout as their vegetable at dinner, and they respect the choices that their children make. This choice is an example of:
The content of parenting
Which of the following applies to research regarding the effects of spanking?
Children who are spanked exhibit more aggressive behaviors than other children
Melissa considers herself to be her daughter’s best friend. Though Anna is only 11, Melissa allows her to schedule her own activities with friends and make unilateral decisions about where she goes and how she dresses. Melissa most closely mirrors which parenting approach?
Permissive
Based on the ideas of family systems theory, the ________ depicts the variations of parenting approaches that are used in different contexts based on levels of structure and nurture.
The Parenting Circumplex Model
Which of the following is TRUE of positive reinforcement for children?
Sincere and specific praise is the most powerful in guiding behavior
Every night, Sylvie’s mother tells her goodnight before she leaves the room. On Wednesday night, Sylvie’s mom left the bedroom without telling her “goodnight.” Sylvie immediately left her bed and yelled “goodnight” to her mother. Sylvie’s behavior is best explained by:
Social learning theory
A child’s bedroom is the best place for a time-out.
False
Typically, parents only teach children positive attitudes, values, and beliefs during the socialization process.
False
Ethnocentrism is described as?
It implies that one’s own culture is superior to that of others
