SMF101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Father, Ontario Health Insurance Plan, Parental Leave
31 Aug 2015
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Caveats th: children"s outcomes also affected by, parental education, social and economic status, child"s temperament, see earlier slide re stressors on child development , opportunities for good parenting" built on many other social forces. If a child is not sure if they are going to be embarrassed or humiliated they can"t learn : mary gordon ( roots of empathy , poverty, separated/divorce, substance abuse, anger/domestic violence. Hippocampus: high sterol levels cause loss of dendrites and cell death. Our biological unit of survival of the clan : we are wired to connect, we are unavoidably interdependent on each other to survive. Children have fewer emotional, social and cognitive interactions with fewer people. The compartmentalizing of our culture has resulted in materials wealth yet poverty of social and emotional opportunity. Adolescents need parents too, not just young children. : under construction: the teen brain is like a computer. Adding new programs, but not yet developed: development is like downloading new software.
