Chapters 9-11 Flashcards
Parents who are warm but firm; they set standards of behavior for their child and highly value the development of autonomy and self-direction.
authoritative parents
Acts of omission that involve failing to meet the nurturing and affection needs of a child, exposing a child to chronic or severe spouse abuse, allowing or permitting a child to use drugs or alcohol, encouraging the child to engage in maladaptive behaviors, refusing to provide psychological care, and other inattention to the child’s developmental needs.
emotional neglect
Family courts that specifically adjudicate child welfare cases involving child abuse and neglect and parental substance abuse.
Family Dependency Treatment Courts
Acts that cause physical harm, including death.
physical abuse
Parents who are relatively more responsive, accepting, benign, and passive in matters of discipline and place few demands on their child.
indulgent parents
Children who regularly care for themselves without adult supervision after school or on weekends.
latchkey children
Severe mistreatment of children, involving several types of abuse and neglect.
maltreatment
Parents who place a high value on obedience and conformity, tending to favor more punitive, absolute, and forceful disciplinary measures.
authoritarian parents
Acts of omission that involve refusal to provide health care, delay in providing health care, abandonment, expulsion of a child from a home, inadequate supervision, failure to meet food and clothing needs, and conspicuous failure to protect a child from danger.
physical neglect
Acts of commission of sexual acts against children that are used to provide sexual gratification to the perpetrator.
sexual abuse
Families composed of children and one parent who is divorced or widowed or who was never married.
single-parent families
The process through which children learn the norms and values of a particular society or social group so that they can function within it.
socialization
Families in which the child lives with both biological parents, but has half- and step-siblings who may or may not reside in the household.
blended families
Which theorist believes that there are no “good” divorces when it comes to children?
Elizabeth Marquardt
Families defined as two married biological parents with no half- or step-siblings.
nuclear households
Acts of omission and commission that include permitting chronic truancy, failure to enroll a child in school, and inattention to the child’s specific education needs.
educational neglect
Who found that a child with at least 50 children’s books in his or her room scores about five percentile points higher on standardized intelligence tests than a child with no books?
Steven Levitt
Parents who are unresponsive to their child and may, in extreme cases, be neglectful.
indifferent parents
Who believes there are two critical aspects of parent’s behavior toward children: parental responsiveness and parental demandingness?
Diana Baumrind
What French sociologist believed the integrative function of religion was crucial for maintaining social order?
Emile Durkheim
Acts of commission that include confinement, verbal or emotional abuse, and other types of abuse, such as withholding sleep, food, or shelter.
emotional abuse
Which theorist sees three major effects of divorce on women that dramatically affect children: Divorced mothers are overloaded from both work and child rearing, face financial strains, and are likely to be socially isolated.
Mavis Hetherington
Families in which unmarried biological parents live together.
intact cohabiting families
Which theorist reports that in the year following the breakup, children in single-parent families are more likely to suffer psychological distress, but in the long run they cope more successfully than children in intact families where parents do not get along?
Mavis Hetherington
Who’s analysis of data from the National Youth Survey suggests that youths who have been raised in the long-term presence of a step-parent are more likely to engage in violent delinquency than youths with minimal or no exposure to a step-parent?
Cesar Rebellon
The degree to which parents are supportive of the needs of their children.
parental responsiveness
Who assessed the link between religiosity and risky sexual behaviors among a large sample of more than 6000 youths from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth.
Jennifer Manlove
What is the most frequently cited work on the topic of religiosity and delinquency?
“Hellfire and Delinquency” by Travis Hirschi