PSY311H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Single Parent, Peer Pressure, Tabula Rasa
Document Summary
Family systems, various fields within social services, social work talks about family systems theory and how they work and the influence they have on one another, Individual members within the family and the relationships between each member, Wholeness system that is greater than sum of its parts, full unit, delicate integral ways the family functions given the relationships between them. Circularity of influence not only top down, multidirectional, influence goes in many directions. Nuclear mom, dad and biological children. Traditional families dad is the breadwinner and mom assuming caregiving role. Families can change for many reasons, diversity have become the norm. Number of households with only parent of number of children who live in a single parent family home, can have many children living in one household. Step time between parents and their step parents. Negative view consequence for children, the moral view that parents are selfish when kids are involved, child becomes lower priority.
