PSY 3123 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Parent Management Training, Snowplow, Parenting Styles

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 3123
• Professor: Kristel Thomassin

Document Summary

Socialization is process of passing on culture"s ways of thinking and acting. Assumptions that parents and others treat children and adults. How we socialize children re ects what we expect of them and value we place on them. In canada"s early years, children often employed. 20th century saw arrival of economically worthless but emotionally priceless child, who"s expected to provide emotional satisfaction for parents. Childhood came to be regarded as special time, and increasingly differentiated from adulthood. Number, marital status, sex, sexual orientation, and age of child"s parent- gures may help shape child. Children who grow up in two-parent families, one-parent families, and stepfamilies have different socializing experiences. Children living in single-parent homes face higher risk of low academic achievement. Oftentimes single-parent home have lower household income vs. two incomes. Lower ses connected to how kids fair in longterm. Proportion of children living in households with married parents decreased between.