HDFS 2100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: High School Dropouts, Impulsivity, Individualism

• School: UConn
• Department: Human Development and Family Studies
• Course: HDFS 2100
• Professor: Tanika Simpson

Document Summary

Family: most powerful microsystem influence, direct, two person relationships (dyads = attachment) Lifelong poor health, poor academic achievement, mental illness, impulsivity, aggression, antisocial behavior: homelessness: rates as highly traumatic experience in childhood, neighborhoods, meso or exosystem influence, after school programs and clubs are important to low ses children. Increased self-confidence, better school achievement: attendance at neighborhood programs is often hindered by violence. Family neighborhood ties help parents: parents self-worth, access to information and services, child-rearing support. Schools: mesosystem, parent involvement in schools is important at all ages, high ses parents more likely to be involved. Low ses and ethnic minority parents may feel uncomfortable or have less time: worldwide education of girls, most children not enrolled in school are poverty-stricken girls, educating girls improves, children"s cognitive and literacy development, mother-child interactions. Subcultures, including ethnic minority groups, often have cooperative family structures.