NUR2310C Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Parenting Styles, Peer Pressure
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Defined as the structure or relationship between individuals that provides financial and emotional support needed for social functioning. Blended brady bunch type, kids from mom, kids from dad, kids together. Communal adults and children chose to live with group of people who are not relatives that become the extended family. Foster care for a child whose bio or adoptive parents cannot take care of them, may or not be related to children in foster care. Gay/lesbian two members of same sex who have children and have legal common law. Authoritarian dictorial, overly strict, my way or the highway, military style (ends n=negative) Authoritative some restrictions, parents set the rules and child fails to follow then there are consequences. Family systems viewed as a whole system (closed vs open) change affects whole family. Family stress theory stress is inevitable, can be expected or unexpected. Family developmental theories views families as small groups that interact with larger social system.
