PSYC 2450 Chapter Notes - Chapter 16: Family Therapy, Kids Help Phone, Child Abuse
3 Apr 2013
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Socialization: the process by which children acquire the beliefs, values, and behaviors considered desirable or appropriate by their culture or subculture. The complex network of relationships, interactions, and patterns of influence that characterizes a family with three or more members. By one definition, family is two or more persons related by birth, marriage, adoption, or choice who have emotional ties and responsibilities to each other. Mothers are the agents that mold children"s conduct and character. Children influence the behavior and child-rearing practices of their parents. Families are complex social systems, networks of reciprocal relationships and alliances that are constantly evolving and are greatly affected by community and cultural influences. Family is a holistic structure consists of interrelated parts, each of which affects and is affected by every other part. Each part contributes to the functioning of the whole. Traditional nuclear families: a family unit consisting of a wife/mother, a husband/father and their dependent child or children.
