PSYC21H3 Chapter Notes -Aging Brain, Dysfunctional Family, Main Source
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Family= social unit in which adult spouses or partners and their kids share economic, social and emotional rights and respnisbilities and a sense of commitment and idneitifucation with each other. They offer the most intense and enduring of all interpersonal bonds. Families are systems for socialization= process by which parents and others teach children the standards of behavior, attitudes, skills, and motives deemed appropriate for their society. The family system- grup of people composed of interdependent members and subsystems; changes in the behavior of one member of the family affect the functioning of the other members. Changes in the behavior of one member of the family affect the functioning of the other members. In well functioning fam, parents have a good relationship with eachother its hard to reverse the negative quality of dysfunctional family interactions because systems in general resist change.
