Parenting, Family Factors: Siblings & Divorce & Maltreatment & Trauma Flashcards
Diana Baumrind - Level of warmth/responsiveness
• degree to which parent responds to child’s need in an accepting & supporting manner
Diana Baumrind - Level of demandingness/control
• degree to which parents expects/demands mature, responsible behavior from the child
What are the characteristics of an authoritative parent?
- High demandingness/control & High Acceptance/ Responsiveness
• warm, but firm
• use reasoning
• children are more cheerful, more creative, achievement oriented
What are the characteristics of an authoritarian parent?
- High on control/demandigness & low on acceptance/ responsiveness
•place high value on obedience & conformity
• more punitive
• do not encourage independent behavior
•children more unfriendly & unhappy
What are the characteristics of permissive/indulgent parents?
- Low on control/demandigness & high on acceptance/responsiveness
•great deal of warmth & acceptance, but few if any rules
• children are more impulsive, lower self-control, more agressive, bossy & self centered
What are the characteristics of indifferent/uninvolved/neglectful parent?
- Low demandingness/control & low acceptance/responsiveness
• low on warmth & low dimension of control
• parents may be disinterested in parenting
• children are more agressive, worse in school
What are some racial/ethnic differences in parenting styles?
- higher authoritative = whites
- higher authoritarian = minorities
- may be ok in different environments
What are some indirect effects of marital conflicts
- Parents tend to be more cold & unresponsive
* Poor limit setting= children tend to be more angry, non compliant.
What are some direct effects of marital conflicts?
• according to Mark Cummings
- distress in presence of conflict
- more distress if conflict unresolved
What are some effects of divorce?
- 60% of new (first time married) couples divorce (today)
- 9% of new couples divorced in the 1960’s
- Risks for children
- Poor academic performance
- Higher school drop out
- Conduct problems (esp. boys)
- Low self-esteem
- Early sexual activity
- Substance use
- Later relationship problems
What are some factors that impact adjustment?
- Level of conflict before divorce
- Level of conflict during and after divorce
- Financial difficulties and poverty (economic warfare)
- High levels of parental distress
- Greater numbers of life changes and disruptions
- Level of involvement by non-custodial parent
What are some effects due to single parenting?
- If single parenting due to death child does well academically & emotionally.
- Single parent families more likely to fall below the poverty line (increases parental stress & decreases parenting skill, which affects child well-being).
- Lower academic achievement
- More psychological problems
- Affects parents ability to parent effectively
- Emotional parentification: Children becoming more concerced about parents emotional needs more than their own.
Can contribute to development of competence & maturity for older children
Can be an overwhelming burden for younger children
What are some facts about single parents home by race/ethnicity?
- 16% Asian / Pacific Islander
- 24% Non-Hispanic Whites
- 40% Hispanic /Latinos
- 53% American Indian
- 67% African American **
Father involvement
- have been found to be equally nurturing & competent
- infants (children) become attached to fathers
- results in children w/ father involvement= children better academically & behavioral regardless if the father is living in the household or not.
What are some of the effects of remarriage?
- Academic performance does not increase over the level they achieved in a single-parent family
- Adjustment & well being lower
Remarriage & Step families; Sleeper effects
In adolescence:
- Greater problems for girls
- Fewer problems for boys