exam #3 Flashcards
prep for finals
traditional families
- Two bio parents, married to each other, sharing home with bio children
- Father earns income while mom stays home to rear children
- Currently, working moms are primary financial providers in 40% of US households
- Two bio parent cohabitating is almost down to half
polygamist families
- legal in 850 societies globally but not in US
2. Direction 9.9/10 is men with multiple wives
neg effects of polygamy
higher rates of:
1) Marital conflict (e.g. jealousy)
2) Mental health issues
3) Children being exposed to marital violence and father absences
(higher amts of kids = less resources including father’s care)
which wife has highest rate of MH issues and why in polygamous relationships?
- 1st wife
2. because most likely to exp jealousy
single parents
- most common form: typically mothers
- by 2012 the percent of babies born to a single woman rose to 40.7%
- high stress environ: 43% of moms are at or below poverty line
reasons women become single parents
1) ~33% never got married
2) ~16-35% separated or divorced
3) ~1.7% death of spouse (woman is widow)
how has being a single parent changed since 1960s?
1) 1960s: 9.1% single moms
2) 2008: 26.7% single moms
frequency of single parents differs by race/ ethnicity how?
More than half are black/ African American females
single moms are a diverse group
1) Adolescents single women
2) Older single women
3) Unmarried women living with a partner
4) this makes it diff to summarize how single motherhood affects children
What makes single parenthood so stressful?
- financial problems
- relationship problems
- parenting demands
- lack of time for self
stress buffers for single moms
- Material and financial support (diapers, babysitting, money, etc.)
- Social support (not even a really strong one; just perceived social support)
cumulative risk model
- more stressors -> more neg outcomes
2. higher internalizing prob rates in kiddos; dose-effect relationship with mom’s risk factors
katchick et al., 2005
- Neighborhood stress stopped her from parenting well (monitoring) and increased psychological distress
- Perceived social support enough to mitigate the cycle
i) She can positively care for her children despite the poor environment that she has to do it in
ii) #1 PROTECTIVE FACTOR
adolescent moms
- US rate higher than other developed nations
- Rates of sex act in adols is comparable to other countries
- LOWER RATES OF CONTRACEPTIVE USE
- 750,000 US adols preg each year
Risk factors for teen pregnancies
1) Poverty
2) School failure
3) Low aspirations for future
4) Friends who are teen moms
5) Unrealistic ideas about easy parenthood
MTV’s “16 and Preg”
Research has shown by showing non glam side of teen preg to adols there’s been a drop in teen preggers attributed only to this show!
Teen moms may:
- Be competent, loving and responsive
2. But tend to be less verbal/ stimulating
Teen Moms are likely to…
1) Be experiencing parenting as a crisis
2) Unprepared- emotionally, physically, financially, etc.
3) Have identity development conflicts with parenting role
a) Cause this is time to figure out who you are
b) Confounded by you being a parent
4) Have adolescent egocentricism which interferes with empathy
a) Parenting requires lots of self sacrifice NOT GOOD WITH ADOLESCENTS
5) Suffer from stress and unstable family
a) Could have existed before preg was there though
child born to young mothers are at risk of
- Deficit in cog functioning
- Psychosocial problems (attachment issues)
- Poor academic outcomes (repeating a grade, truancy)
- Premature sexual activity
a) Poor modeling might be the reason why - Externalizing behaviors
a) such as aggression
risk to child can be moderated by teen mothers’
1) Intelligence (IQ not academic performance)
2) Self esteem
3) Amount of adversity that she’d encountered up to pregnancy
a) More adversity before are worse off b/c continued adversity more likely
4) Mental health status
ART
- (assisted reproductive tech) families
- Financial costs of tech (over $25,000 per time)
- Increased risk of 30% of birth defects
a) Correlational data
b) parents tend to be older
Does it matter if you are an ART kiddo?
Yes b/c environment but then Jordan put “NAHHH” in his book notes
ART mothers
- More anxious during pregnancy
- possibly due to money spent to get it done
- environ trains baby for world - More elated at birth and more protective
- could also have elevated rates of PPD
- more tiger/helicopter moms
adoptive parents
- 136,000 annual adoptions in US (500,000 applications made)
- 80% motivated by inability to conceive
multiple types of adoptions
- domestic, international, foster care, etc.
- 46% of international private agency adoptions are young infants
- Only 2% of adoptions from child welfare agencies are young infants
unique challenges of adoptions
- Pregnancy histories and early environment concerns
- Attachment issues
- Child’s search for identity
reactive attachment disorder
1) child can’t attach to caregiver regardless of how good caregiver is
2) b/c they’ve passed the attachment age
3) Longer without parent more likely this will happen
4) Long term psych consequences even if the child doesn’t know they were adopted later
5) Usually if parents adopt internationally they’re blind to this
adoptive children’s outcomes
1) Presence of problems linked to type of adoption
2) Dose-response relationship
a) Better if from your country and early on
3) Adoptive children do much better on IQ tests and in school than non-adopted children
a) but not as well as kids not adopted
b) some selection issues
Romanian orphans/
Bucharest Early Intervention Project
- random assn to continued orphanage care or foster care
- found there was improvement in the children placed into foster care
a) improved in cog fn not socioemo fn
b) younger the child placed into foster care, the better the outcomes
gay/ Lesbian Parents
- About 16% of gay couples live with children under the age of 18 yrs
- Few differences in parenting practices, beliefs or attitudes from heterosexuals
- More positive functioning in gay-father families
- Lesbian mom who carries baby will fall into trad mom role and other will fall into trad dad role therefore more marital conflict
Children of gay/les couples
- Largely indistinguishable from other kiddos
2. May face prejudice, teasing, harassment
blended/ step parent fams
- Diverse family combinations which leads to… Diverse family dynamics
- Disruption of relationships
- Multiple transitions
- Parenting practice matter
Diverse family dynamics in blended/ step parent fams
- tend to see more adjustment problems
- b/c of nature of changed family dynamics
- depends on age: when very young or much older less impactful on day-2-day exp
parenting practices matter in blended/ step parent fams… characteristics of parenting practices that help are:
- Being involved
- Providing warmth
- Monitoring/supervising
- Disciplining
- Helping with emo dev will help with transition
grandparents as parents
- 7.7 million US children are reared by grandparents (57% of population)
- Comes with Strengths and Weaknesses
strengths of grandparents as parents
- Highly committed
- More wise and knowledgeable
- More time and gratitude
weaknesses of grandparents as parents
- Less energy
- More problems with discipline
- Generation gap
parenting styles depend on age and less so on personality
- Older (65+): more formal
2. Younger: fun-seeker and benevolent but distant
children benefit from grandparent involvement b/c leads to…
- more cog stimulation
2. higher reading scores
Effects on grandparents as parents
- Often react with anger to own child
- More likely to report mental health issues
- Financial strains
- Physical problems
foster parents
- temporary
- flawed system but at least you have a primary caregiver
- requires extraordinary abilities/skills
- 30-50% quit despite financial incentive
four key caregiving qualities
- Love and nurturance
- Synchrony
- Stability of care
- Commitment
parenting emergent adults (18-29 yrs)
- Child or adult?
- Parents tend to remain highly involved
- Can be beneficial b/c: offer practical advice, emotional and financial support
patterns of parenting to emergent adults
1) Uninvolved of neglectful style
2) Controlling-indulgent style
3) Authoritarian style
4) Suggests this is indicative of something going wrong in parent-child dynamic
child abductions
by stranger: 2400/ yr
by fam: 354,000/yr
annual incidence of maltreatment
- 1.25 million children
- prevalence rates depend on source of sample
- no clear understanding on what’s really going on
- neglect:50%
- phys: 35%
- emo/sex: 10%
commission
- threat
- putting something that doesn’t belong in child’s environment
- phy abuse
omission
- deprivation
- taking away something that belongs in kids’ environment
- neglect
phys abuse
- Most extensively studied
- Easier to view
- Injury to child (commission)
- Parents are perpetrators of physical abuse about 80.3% of the time
causes of phys abuse
- Often overreaction to mundane event
a) Not preplanned - Sometimes unintentional (e.g. shaken baby syndrome)