HD FS 315Y Lecture Notes - Lecture 31: Apache Hadoop, Stepfamily

• School: PSU
• Department: Human Development and Family Studies
• Course: HD FS 315Y
• Professor: Eggebeen David

Document Summary

1) transitional period: 2 4 years. Common strategies or styles of relationship between step parent and step child: A) affinity seeker: limited parenting role. 2) stabilization period: after 4 years. Few step-parents become fully functioning parents to step- child. C) support for biological parent"s child-rearing style. Why we should expect children to do better in step families than in single- parent families: 1) more income, 2) presence of father-figure, 3) second adult for monitoring. Consistent evidence that step-children fair no better than children in single-parent families: remarriage poses another transition. Important characteristics of child poverty: 1) child poverty is common and increasing, 2) child poverty differs by education, 3) child poverty differs by marital status. 15. 8 million children live in poverty (2015: 21. 5% An additional 15. 9 million children live in low income families. Income-to-needs is between 1. 0 to 2. 0 poverty thresholds: as of 2015: 43% of all children are living in economically vulnerable circumstances.