SOCIOL 4511 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Free-Range Parenting, Helicopter Parent, Psychological Abuse
29 Mar 2017
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Overview: family dysfunction = key factor in long term social problems, four major aspects of family influence delinquency. The changing american family: many changes over past 50 years, family makeup. 40 50% of new marriages end in divorce. 60% of children receive child care on regular basis. Wide range in quality 90% underground and not registered: economic stress. Family structure: decline of marriage, race and marriage (racial differences in family makeup) 35% african american children live with 2 parents: teen moms. Teen mom = increased tweets about negative aspects of. More than 90% of teens who give birth are unmarried: military families and raising children. Family breakup = home in which one or both parents are absent due to divorce or separation. Blended families = nuclear families that are product of divorce and remarriage. Less stable than intact families: effects of divorce. F. 1. children who grow up one parent absent are . Less likely to finish high school and attend college.
