CFD 3240 Lecture Notes - Lecture 28: Egocentrism, Shared Parenting, Preterm Birth
28 Apr 2017
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Generativity issues of cohabitating young adults and their parents. The cohabitation of young adults is related to less parental support: example: less likely to be giving and receiving assistance with household tasks. Also less likely to participate in the behaviors that strengthen the intergenerational ties: examples: visiting on vacations, spending holidays together, or involving parents in family events and rituals. Young adults who became parents during adolescence least prepared for parenthood: have the fewest resources to help them in their parental roles, also, higher risk of having a low-birth-weight baby and/or a premature birth. Assistance needed in achieving generativity: their parents typically provide financial support & childcare, professionals can help them to adapt to their roles of early parenthood. The challenges of adulthood (including parenthood) helps young adults to reason in novel, more complex, and less rigid ways than adolescents. They become better problem finders: which helps them to discern the problems of their children that need their attention.
