PSYC 205 Lecture Notes - Parenting Styles
Family dynamics - How a family functions as a whole
Families do not have a definition - lots of variations
Family is:
Group with bond/connection
Intimacy
Stable ties
Shared ancestry
Family is not:
Necessarily biological
Age restricted
Families today:
More single adults
Postponement of marriage
Decreased and later childbearing
More female employment
More divorce
More single parents
More children living in poverty
More remarriage
Families are complex systems
Interdependent
oComposed of interdependent parts
oMany relationships between families
Father-child
Mother-child
Sibling-sibling
oFunctioning in one relationship can have impact on others in the system - parents
influence on child and child's influence on parent (bidirectional)
All the relationships influence each other - directly or indirectly
Child's temperament on parenting style
Parents' punitive reactions to children can lead to low self-regulation
There can also be a third party that influences the relationship
Marital satisfaction goes down right after birth of a child (for a while)
Spillover effect
Mom and dad are having trouble and are in a bad mood - might spill
over into how they are treating the child
oThere is a triangle of marital relationship, parenting, and child development
All influence each other
Dynamic
oChanges in family
New baby, employment, death, divorce
Within and outside family changes - war, change in community
Embedded
oFamilies are embedded in larger contexts
oEcological systems (Bronfenbrenner) - more development with change in level
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Document Summary
Family dynamics - how a family functions as a whole. Families do not have a definition - lots of variations. Composed of interdependent parts: many relationships between families. Functioning in one relationship can have impact on others in the system - parents influence on child and child"s influence on parent (bidirectional) All the relationships influence each other - directly or indirectly. Parents" punitive reactions to children can lead to low self-regulation. There can also be a third party that influences the relationship. Marital satisfaction goes down right after birth of a child (for a while) Mom and dad are having trouble and are in a bad mood - might spill over into how they are treating the child o. There is a triangle of marital relationship, parenting, and child development. Within and outside family changes - war, change in community. Ecological systems (bronfenbrenner) - more development with change in level.
