PSYC 315 Lecture 3: MidtermNote-Family
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Survival of offspring: families help to ensure that children survive to maturity by attending to their physical needs, health, and safety. Economic function: families provide the means for children to acquire the skills and other resources that they will need to be economically productive in adulthood. Cultural training: families teach children the basic values of their culture. The way in which the family operates as a whole; bidirectional, interdependent influences. Family members all influence one another, both directly and in directly, through their behaviors. Family functioning is influenced by the social support that parents receive from kin, friends, neighbors, and social institutions sociocultural context is important for family dynamics. Family dynamics must be looked at developmentally as children grow child-parent interactions change. Family dynamics also be altered by changes in parents, in the marital relationship, or in the relationships of other family members. Biological characteristics of children and parents contribute to the nature of parent-child interactions in family dynamics.
