PSY 3123 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Stepfamily, Role Conflict, Nuclear Family

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 3123
• Professor: Mary Theresa Howard

Document Summary

Federal child support guidelines: determine amount paid by non-resident parent. Considers personal income, number of dependent children and province they reside provincial child support guidelines apply if parents never legally married. Child does best when they have continuity in their relationships. Keep contact with both extended families and assured of adequate financial support. Stepfamily: children related to one parent but not the other. Simple: all children are biological or adopted of only one partner. Stepmother family if only the father has prior children. Separate child from each spouse with or without one or more of the couple. Separate child from one spouse and one or more of the couple. Many include at least one child born into the step family step families have more kids under one roof than intact families and these kids tend to be older. Couples in step families are less likely to be married.