CD-0001 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Nuclear Family, Single Parent, Parenting

• School: Tufts University
• Department: Child Development
• Course: CD-0001
• Professor: Chip Gidney

Document Summary

Vital services for society: reproduction, economic services: prod and distributing goods and services, social order: reducing conflict and maintaining order, socialization: training the young to become competent members of society, emotional support. Although other institutions are now responsible for these things, the family is still largely responsible for three things: emotional support, socialization, reproduction. Social systems perspective: views the family as a complex set of interacting relationships influenced by the larger social context. (cid:373)u(cid:272)h i(cid:374) (cid:272)o(cid:373)(cid:373)o(cid:374) (cid:449)ith bro(cid:374)fe(cid:374)(cid:271)re(cid:374)(cid:374)er"s ecological systems theory. Parents do not mechanically shape their children: bidirectional influences exist mutually influence o/a. Direct influences: parents firm but warm: children comply, parents with harshness and impatience: children resist and rebel. Indirect influences: third parties can serve as supports for development or they can undermine it, coparenting: (cid:373)utually supporti(cid:374)g ea(cid:272)h other"s pare(cid:374)ti(cid:374)g (cid:271)eha(cid:448)iors. Praise and stimulate instead of nag and scold. Marital relatio(cid:374)ship (cid:862)spills o(cid:448)er(cid:863) to (cid:272)hild-parent relationship: social issues: health the transition to parenthood.