FRHD 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Attachment Theory, Lesson Learned, Gestation

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Family Relations and Human Development
• Course: FRHD 1020
• Professor: Ruth Neustifter

Document Summary

Week 7: having a child and parent-child relationships. During our teens and early twenties, we are focused on contraception. A shift commonly occurs with couples in the late 20s and early 30s beginning to shift towards getting pregnant rather than preventing it. They switch from not wanting a child to wanting a child. Birth of a child represents one of the major life course transitions. Experience the child brings to the parent. The child, whether adopted or genetically related, is considered a consanguine (with blood) relative. (cid:373)akes their relatio(cid:374)ship to the pare(cid:374)t (cid:862)dura(cid:271)le(cid:863) (cid:272)ulturall(cid:455) a(cid:374)d legall(cid:455) Experience less motivation to work on the couple relationship with the birth of the firt child (belsky & rovine, 1990; cowan & cowan, 2000; feeney hohaus, noller & alexander, But the transition to being a parent is a process involving. Process of adapting to having the child at home. There are complex timing norms about relationships that are age and duration graded.