PSYC 2450 Chapter Notes - Chapter 16: Coparenting, Health Canada, Single Parent
18 Apr 2013
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Most important function is to care and socialize their young. Socialization the process by which children acquire the beliefs, motives, values, and behaviours deemed significant and appropriate by the older members of their society. Family is society s primary instrument of socialization. When developmentalists began to study socialization they focus on mother-child relationship: assumed mother s were responsible for moulding child s conduct and character. Family is a holistic structure interrelated parts that affect all other parts. Traditional nuclear families: consist of wife, husband, and firstborn child, complex entity. Mother indirectly influence father-infant relationship: fathers more engaged with child when relationships with their spouses are harmonious. Coparenting circumstances when parent s mutually support each other and function as cooperative parenting team: difficult for parents experiences marital problems or other life stressors. Likely to lead to adjustment problems in children. Extended family parents and children live with other relatives (aunt, grandparents, uncles, nieces and nephews.
