FNF 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Parental Investment

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Family Studies
• Course: FNF 100
• Professor: Dan Mahoney

Document Summary

Capacity to select social seings that best match an individuals goals, values and strengths. During mid adolescence, it promotes realisic decisions about the roles and relaionships of adulthood. Greater funcioning on marital stability, educaional atainment, occupaions. Biographical orientaion: refers to enire planning performance outcomes sequences, bear on educaion, work and family life. Coping with the social and economic realiies of their work. Inability to carry through with life long goals. Diferent coping paterns; some immature and other efecive. Coping paters among younger adults is seen with greater job success and marriage stability. Family experiences, school and work create stress during transiions from childhood to adulthood. Same levels of educaion produces more variability in job placement. Working outside of school taking away from ime that should be spent on their educaion. Diferent family experiences are associated with diferent pathways for adulthood. Divorce or poverty are more likely to leave home, not actually get married and parent a child before marriage.