CFD 1010 Lecture 30: Young Adults Dealing with Parental Divorce

• School: UCM
• Department: Child and Family Development
• Course: CFD 1010
• Professor: Frank R Peterson

Document Summary

In the case of parental divorce, an integrative perception of parental divorce is related to young adults": Higher levels of friendship, enjoyment, and intimacy. An integrated perception of divorce consists of re-examining stressful events and: Focusing not only on painful feelings, but also on the future and its possibilities. Parent child relationships and the achievement of generativity. Generativity"s chief expression is in establishing and guiding the next generation. Maintaining a household and caring for children has been how women achieved generativity. Providing food and other goods for the family has been how men have achieved generativity. Today, both parents are likely to be working. Happiest couples don"t work very long or very few hours. Parents in collectivist cultures, more likely to link generativity with communal living. Through cooperative efforts that maximize group success in the family and the workplace. For parents in individualist cultures, generativity might mean. Being the best parents they can be.