chp 14 Flashcards
Linked lives
The concept that the development of the individual is intertwined with the development of other family members.
Family Systems Theory
The conceptualization of the family as a whole consisting of interrelated parts, each of which affects and is affected by every other part, and each of which contributes to the functioning of the whole.
Nuclear Family
A family unit consisting of husband–father, wife–mother, and at least one child.
Coparenting
The extent and manner in which the two parents coordinate their parenting and function as a team in relation to their children.
Extended family household
A family unit composed of parents and children living with other kin such as grandparents, aunts and uncles, cousins, or a combination of these.
Family life cycle
The sequence of changes in family composition, roles, and relationships that occurs from the time people marry until they die.
Cohabitation
The living together of two single adults as an unmarried couple.
Reconstituted families
A new family that forms after the remarriage of a single parent, sometimes involving the blending of two families into a new one.
Indirect Effects
The instance in which the relationship between two individuals in a family is modified by the behavior or attitudes of a third family member.
Acceptance-responsiveness
A dimension of parenting capturing the extent to which parents are supportive, sensitive to their children’s needs, and willing to provide affection and praise when their children meet their expectations.
Demandingness-control
A dimension of parenting reflecting the extent to which parents as opposed to children exert control over decisions and set and enforce rules; also called permissiveness–restrictiveness.
Authoritarian parenting
A restrictive style of parenting combining high demandingness–control and low acceptance–responsiveness in which adults impose many rules, expect strict obedience, and often rely on power tactics rather than explanations to elicit compliance.
Authoritative parenting
A flexible style of parenting combining high demandingness–control and high acceptance–responsiveness in which adults lay down clear rules but also take their children’s views into account and explain the rationale for their restrictions.
Permissive parenting
A lax style of parenting combining low demandingness–control and high acceptance–responsiveness in which adults love their children but make few demands on them and rarely attempt to control their behavior.
Neglectful parenting
A parenting style low in demandingness–control and low in acceptance–responsiveness; uninvolved parenting.
Family stress model
Model of the effects of economic hardship in families that centers on the negative effects of financial stresses on parent mental health, parenting, and, in turn, child development.
Parent effects model
A model of family influence in which parents are believed to influence their children rather than vice versa.
Child effects model
A model of family influence in which children are believed to influence their parents rather than vice versa.
Interactional model
A model of family influence in which it is the combination of a particular kind of child with a particular kind of parent that determines developmental outcomes.
Transactional model
A model of family influence in which parent and child are believed to influence each other reciprocally over time, and development is influenced by how their relationship evolves.
Sibling rivalry
A spirit of competition, jealousy, or resentment that may arise between two or more brothers or sisters.
Autonomy
The capacity to make decisions independently, serve as one’s own source of emotional strength, and otherwise manage life tasks without being overdependent on other people; an important developmental task of adolescence.
Helicopter parenting
Also called overparenting, parenting characterized by developmentally inappropriate levels of control of and assistance to late-adolescent and emerging-adult children.
Empty nest
The term used to describe the family after the last child departs the household.
Role reversal
Phenomenon in which the aging parent becomes the child and the child becomes the caregiver, not typical of most aging parent–child relationships.
Middle-generation squeeze
The phenomenon in which middle-aged adults sometimes experience heavy responsibilities for both the younger and the older generations in the family.
Kinkeeper
An individual, typically a woman, who keeps family members in touch with each other and handles family problems when they arise.
Caregiver
The psychological distress associated with providing care for someone with physical, cognitive, or both types of impairment.
Intimate partner violence
Spousal abuse as well as violence in dating, cohabiting, and other romantic relationships that can involve physical or psychological abuse as well as sexual coercion and rape.
Child maltreatment
A broad term for inadequate care or harmful treatment of a child; encompasses both child abuse and child neglect.
Child abuse
Mistreating or harming a child physically, emotionally, or sexually, as distinguished from another form of child maltreatment, neglect of the child’s basic needs.
Parental alienation
Situation in which a child becomes reluctant or refuses to have a relationship with one parent because of the alienating efforts of the other parent.
Elder abuse
Instances in which older adults are physically or psychologically mistreated, neglected or deprived of needed care, financially exploited, and even sexually abused.
Intergenerational transmission of parenting
The passing down from generation to generation of parenting styles, abusive or otherwise.
Family: the infant
parents are usually more alike than different (on how they raise the child)
- play and interaction between mom and dad is different
- mothers tend to have a more significant role
