Family Development And Issues

Question 1

Family Development Stages

Answer 1

Leaving home, joining families (marriage), welcoming children, raising adolescents, launching, later family life.

Question 2

Parenting styles two continua

Answer 2

Permissive-controlling, warm-hostile.

Question 3

Parenting styles

Answer 3

Authoritarian, Authoritative, Permissive, Uninvolved

Question 4

Authoritarian Parenting style

Answer 4

Autocratic, restrictive and lack outward expressions of warmth. Exert control over children, often through physical punishment, and require adherence to absolute standards of behavior and life choices.

Question 5

Authoritarian children outcomes

Answer 5

Submissive or rebellious, lower levels of achievement and responsibility

Question 6

Authoritative parenting style

Answer 6

Democratic/egalitarian. Parents display moderate control and explain reasoning behind decisions in order to help children understand important factors that go into governing.

Question 7

Authoritative outcomes

Answer 7

best outcomes, independent, assertive, responsible

Question 8

Permissive parenting style

Answer 8

Laissez-faire. Little control and, at most, moderate warmth.

Question 9

Permissive parenting outcome

Answer 9

Self-centered, aggressive, low-achieving, lack social responsibility

Question 10

Uninvolved parenting style

Answer 10

Unengaged. Show little if any interest in children. Indifferent/rejective toward them. In extreme, consitutes neglect and should be reported.

Question 11

Uninvolved outcomes

Answer 11

Children are left to raise themselves

Question 12

Divorce rates

Answer 12

50% of first marriages end in divorce. 75-80% remarry and of those, 60% end in divorce. 70% of third marriages are not ended by the death of a spouse end in divorce.

Question 13

Leaving home

Answer 13

Accept responsibilities of caring for themselves. Determines subsequent stages.

Question 14

Joining Families through marriage

Answer 14

New family system that merges independent families. Realining relationships.

Question 15

Welcoming children to family

Answer 15

Brings children into new family structure and adjust marital dyad. Sharing of tasks and incorporating extended family to accommodate new roles for grandparents.

Question 16

Raising adolescents

Answer 16

Family boundaries become more flexible to allow adolescent children to move in and out of the family structure. Couples shift to caring for older generations and refocus on career and marital issues. About 50% of married couples divorce.

Question 17

Launching

Answer 17

Adjust to multiple exits of adult children and entries into the system. System changes as in-laws join the family

Question 18

Later family life

Answer 18

Couple needs to accept shifting roles necessitated by generational changes. Physical changes and growing role of their children in family leadership. Deal with loss of a spouse, siblings, peers, and eventually their own lives.