COMM 4243 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Nuclear Family
16 Sep 2016
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Happiness in marriage is one of the strongest predictors of your overall happiness in life (if you"re married). (glenn & weaver, 1981) Many individuals often perceive the nuclear family as the best for raising children. Effects of having children: change in marital satisfaction. Marital satisfaction often decreases when children are born. Increases when children leave: cost of raising a single child to 18 years (lino, 2005) ,000. 00: people often say their family and their children are the most important parts of their lives. Turning points in mother/child relationships (miller-day et al. Common positive and negative turning points: receipt and provision of support, transition into adulthood, family crisis, shared activities. Sex differences: daughters reported the following as more consequential to their relationship with their mother: Receiving maternal judgment or criticism: sons reported. Methods: 6 sets of grandmother/mother/adult daughter dyads over either months, observation and unstructured interviews. Two types of mother daughter dyads: connected.
