Family Development And Issues Flashcards
(18 cards)
Family Development Stages
Leaving home, joining families (marriage), welcoming children, raising adolescents, launching, later family life.
Parenting styles two continua
Permissive-controlling, warm-hostile.
Parenting styles
Authoritarian, Authoritative, Permissive, Uninvolved
Authoritarian Parenting style
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.
Authoritarian children outcomes
Submissive or rebellious, lower levels of achievement and responsibility
Authoritative parenting style
Democratic/egalitarian. Parents display moderate control and explain reasoning behind decisions in order to help children understand important factors that go into governing.
Authoritative outcomes
best outcomes, independent, assertive, responsible
Permissive parenting style
Laissez-faire. Little control and, at most, moderate warmth.
Permissive parenting outcome
Self-centered, aggressive, low-achieving, lack social responsibility
Uninvolved parenting style
Unengaged. Show little if any interest in children. Indifferent/rejective toward them. In extreme, consitutes neglect and should be reported.
Uninvolved outcomes
Children are left to raise themselves
Divorce rates
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.
Leaving home
Accept responsibilities of caring for themselves. Determines subsequent stages.
Joining Families through marriage
New family system that merges independent families. Realining relationships.
Welcoming children to family
Brings children into new family structure and adjust marital dyad. Sharing of tasks and incorporating extended family to accommodate new roles for grandparents.
Raising adolescents
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.
Launching
Adjust to multiple exits of adult children and entries into the system. System changes as in-laws join the family
Later family life
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.
