CHF 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Parenting Styles, Reinforcement, Postpartum Depression

• School: University of Maine
• Department: Child Development and Family Relations
• Course: CHF 200
• Professor: Sandra Caron

Document Summary

Childlessness (not the same as child free) foster parenting. Children decrease happiness, but increase stability because pressure exists to stay together to motherhood. Baby blues, postpartum depression, postpartum psychosis to fatherhood involvement may be determined by mother; she is often the gatekeeper, especially after divorce. Parents are only one influence in child"s development. Permissive: high responsiveness; low demandingness freedom and autonomy valued; reasoning and explanations. Absolute obedience because i said so . Positive reinforcement; awareness of feelings, also limits. Whether called spank , smack , pop , whip/whup the goal is typically same: to correct or to punish a child"s behavior by causing physical pain. 77% of american men and 65% of women agreed sometimes a child needs. Good hard spanking (dropped from 1986 to 2012 survey) 90% of parents spank their toddlers at least 3 times week; 66% spank once a day. One in four parents begin to spank when child is 6 months old; 50% when child is.