PSY311H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Homeschooling
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Types of families: nuclear families: mom, dad (married to one another), biological children that they raise together, traditional families: take traditional roles in family: dad earner, and mother is the homemaker: takes the nurturing and caregiving role, families can change for many reasons: New caregiving arrangements: regardless of cause of single parenthood (e. g. : divorce, death), childhood, the experience for child growing up in a single parent family may vary as a function of many factors, one key issue is how the parent became a single parent, the reasons for single parenthood have changed over the years. Never married mothers: increase is associated with teenage pregnancies older affluent women, and single parent adoptions, different causes for single parenthood and childhood experiences, the reasons for single motherhood and fatherhood are, in fact, quite different, the emotional experience for children could range from isolation and loneliness to living in crowded conditions with limited support.
