CFD 3240 Lecture 18: How do parents work with children

• School: UCM
• Department: Child and Family Development
• Course: CFD 3240
• Professor: Chancler

Document Summary

Various explanations have been proposed, centering mostly on how the biologically based incest taboo between parents and children becomes activated once children reach sexual maturity, resulting in more distant relationships. Responses to menarche and semenarche: menarche signifies reproduction as well as semenarche, girls reported menarche made them feel grown up , premenstrual syndrome (pms, semenarche. Early maturation boys: the effects of early maturation tend to be positive for boys, early maturing boys have, more favorable body image, higher popularity, not everything is favorable; they tend to be involved in, substance use, delinquency, sex. Late maturation boys: late maturing boys show evidence of problems, compared with boys who mature on time, late maturing boys have higher rates of, alcohol/substance use, delinquency, lower grades in school, deviant behavior. Nature versus nurture: popular debate between biology and the, environment, biological factors (nature, environmental factors (nurture, the both nature and nurture concept, theory of genotype-environment effects.