Midterm 1 Flashcards
Government of Canada’s Definition of Family
- Married couple and the children of the spouses
- A couple living common-law and the children of the partners
- A lone parent of any marital status with at least one child living in the same dwelling
- All members of a particular census family live in the same dwelling
- A couple may be of opposite or same sex
- Children may be children by birth, marriage, common-law union or adoption regardless of age or marital status as long as they live in the dwelling and don’t have their own married spouse, common-law partner or child living in the dwelling
- Grandchildren living with their grandparents but with no parents present
Vanier Institute of Family Functional Definition of Family
• Any combination of 2 or more persons who are bound together over time by ties of mutual consent
• Birth/adoption/placement together
• Assume responsibilities for one or more of:
○ Physical maintenance and care of group members
○ Addition of new members through procreation or adoption
○ Socialization of children
○ Social control of members
○ Production, consumption, distribution of goods and services
○ Affective nurturance - love
Increased ___ in the 1980’s and 1990’s
cohabitation
Increase in ___
divorce
more equitable ___
family laws
characteristics of healthy families
- Commitment
- Effective communication patterns
- Spending time together
- Shared value system
- Coping with stress
- Appreciation
- Balancing of needs
What is central and most important for the healthy development of children?
The parent-child relationship
In all cultures, grandparents influence children’s development ___
indirectly and directly
The definition of the family that the government uses severs which following purpose
Development of policy and future planning
The cognitive/social input is more important than
The size of family, the cultural practices and the family structure
autocratic parenting - Hobbesian perspective (20th century)
○ Taming of the child’s will
○ Religious and cultural mandate
○ Miniature monarchy
○ Unquestioned obedience of children
autocratic parenting - Calvinist doctrine (20th century)
○ Inherent sinfulness of child
○ Firm discipline, corporal punishment
○ Strict obedience and submission
Three outstanding features of parent-child relations
○ Developmental parenting
○ Bidirectional parenting
○ Life span parenting
Sigmund Freud (1930’s)
- Acceptance of children’s basic instinct
- Detrimental effect of harsh parenting
John Bowlby and Mary Ainsworth (1940’s)
- Importance of parental attachment for socialization
- Secure attachment = parent has consistent responsiveness to child
- Insecure/avoidant/disorganized attachment = inconsistent responsiveness
Rene Spitz (1950’s)
Importance of responsiveness - crucial to development
Benjamin Spock (1940’s-70’s)
- Challenged harsh childrearing approaches
- Influenced parenting styles
B.F. Skinner (20th century)
- Operant conditioning, importance of reinforcement of positive behaviours
- Reinforcement of positive behaviour, rather than punishment of negative behaviour
Bandura and Walters (1960’s)
Social learning theory - children can learn even without direct instruction, they can learn a lot from interacting with the environment and observing
Erik Erikson (1960’s)
Psychosocial maturity through resolution of stage-specific crisis
Maria Montessori (1909)
- Freedom to explore and learn
- Children have absorbent minds and are motivated to learn
- Sensitive/crucial periods to teach children to master a skill
- First 6 years - should have freedom with limits, respect individual differences, support children in their learning, don’t impose your own ideas onto them
Caroline Pratt (1948)
Importance of play - childhood work is learning through play
Jean Piaget (1960’s-70’s)
Cognitive development - children are active participants in their own learning
Lev Vygotsky (1978)
- Sociocultural theory - instruction, support (social/instrumental), scaffolding of learning
- Children are able to master skills as we provide the context for participation/engagement
Rudolph Dreikurs (1960’s)
- Democratic relationships
- Belonging and acceptance by others
Family Development Theory
- Successive stages over time
- 8 stages based on composition of the family
- Traditional nuclear family
Systemic Family Development Model
Family dynamics across generations and interactional intricacy of families
Social Domain Theory
- Social beings, basic motivation to belong
- Purposeful behaviours
- Decision makers
- Perception of reality
- Parent and child not equal in privileges/responsibility
- Parents and children have equal worth
Urie Bronfenbrenner (1970’s) - Bioecological Model
- Social context of interpersonal relationships
- Multiple influences on parental childrearing behaviours
- Micro, meso, exo, macro and chronosystems
Family Systems Theory
- Family as dynamic systems characterized by stability and change
- Impact of developmental changes on children’s lives
- Normative and non-normative events
- Rules should be explicit
- Enhancement of stability - adapting expectations and behaviours based on changing needs
Theory
Fundamental beliefs, abstract ideas, assumptions about the nature of a phenomenon
Implicit theory
Parental ethno theories - organized sets of ideas of how parents should operate (Eg. Management of child’s sleep)
Explicit Theory
Formal ways of understanding things
Assumptions of theory
○ Nature of children ○ Nature of the relationship ○ Nature of processes ○ Causality ○ Desired outcomes ○ Concepts, models, constructs, hypotheses ○ Generalizations
Unidirectional models (mechanistic)
Parent –> child
Bidirectional models
Parent influencing child and child influencing parent
3 domains of parent-child relationship
- authority
- attachment
- intimacy
authority
- Authority and hierarchical power
- Normally, the parent is seen as having more power than the child
- Unequal power “interdependent asymmetry” - the child and parent each have relational power, personal power …
attachment
responsive caregiving
intimacy
- Hedonistic motive based on pleasure
- Co-constructed meaning-making
- Momentary intimate interactions can be created
- No avoidance of or imposition of meaning-making
- The difference between a child-parent relationship and friend-friend relationship is “choice”, you can’t choose your parents but you can choose your friends and choose when to end that relationship
The view that children are inherently sinful is an example of how ___ affects parenting
religion
Research has shown that a lack of parental responsiveness is associated with
delayed development
The key feature of bidirectional model of parenting is that
children and parents influence each other
All of the following are outstanding features of parent-child relations except
unidirectional parenting
developmental parenting, bidirectional parenting and life span parenting are good
parenting goals
• Tasks of Parenting
○ Psychological goals of parenting
- autonomy and relatedness
- changes in neat classification of cultures
○ Specific developmental goals
- values and developmental goals
- developmental goals based on co-existence of values
• Interpretive lens
• Acquisition of important skills
• Recognition of cultural variations in beliefs and practices
• Transmission of beliefs and practices
autonomy and relatedness (psychological goal of parenting)
○ No dichotomy
○ Similar goals in diverse cultural contexts
○ Coexistence of collectivist and individualist values in communities
changes in neat classification of cultures (psychological goal of parenting)
○ Increased globalization ○ Complex conceptualization of children's development ○ Changes in immigration ○ Political and economic trends ○ Technological advancement
values and developmental goals (specific developmental goals of parenting)
○ Personal choice ○ Intrinsic motivation and persistence ○ Self-esteem ○ Self-maximization ○ Connection to family and other close relationships ○ Orientation towards the larger group ○ Respect and obedience
developmental goals based on co-existence of values (specific developmental goals of parenting)
○ Conflicting = Interfering
○ Additive = Endorsement of both without explicit connection
○ Functional dependence = Importance as a path to developmental goals in either individualism or collectivism
Parenting Style
- a constellation of attitudes towards the child that are communicated to the child and create an emotional climate in which the parents behaviours are expressed
- Indirect influence on child outcomes
parenting styles by Baumrind
○ Authoritative (high warmth, high control)
○ Authoritarian (low warmth, high control)
○ Permissive (high warmth, low control)
○ Unengaged (low warmth, low control)
parenting practices
- Specific, goal-directed behaviours through which parents perform their parental duties
- Tend to have immediate impact on children
- Practices include: beh, psych, control, affection
5 domains of socialization
○ Protection ○ Reciprocity ○ Control ○ Guided learning ○ Group participation
It is sufferance, not power, that children are able to evoke the desired responses from their parents behavioural repertoire. This statement is associated with
parenting styles
Which of the following has only an indirect effect on child outcomes
Parenting styles (Not parenting practices or domains of socialization)
What are the two dimensions of parenting styles?
Responsiveness and demandingness
Which view of socialization is based on understanding of the parent-child relationship, parental behaviour and mechanism of socialization?
Domains of socialization
3 views regarding how parents socialize their children
○ Parenting styles
○ Parenting practice
○ Domains of socialization
The nonshared experiences of mainstream populations with children of colour are
social position, racism and segregation
humanistic parenting
discourages racial socialization, focuses on working hard and being a good citizen
additional parenting tasks of minority parents include
ensuring educational success and racial socialization
the following is a form of racial socialization
teaching about pluralism
A set of shared values, beliefs, and practices that is created by a group of individuals that guides their social relationships and affects their developmental pathways is a definition of
culture
Lightfoot and vlasiner made a distinction between 2 types of cultures
collective and personal
Research has challenged the dichotomous cultural systems as parents in the east endorsed independence
more than parents in the west
models of cultural transmission
bidirectional and unidirectional
parenting, fathering and culture are
socially constructed
parenting in minority families is different from parenting in mainstream population due to
additional issues and tasks
social position and social stratification constructs are at the core of which theoretical formulation of children’s development
integrative model