CFD 1010 Lecture 39: The Role of Parents

• School: UCM
• Department: Child and Family Development
• Course: CFD 1010
• Professor: Frank R Peterson

Document Summary

Adolescent quest for identity: family interactions have a strong impact on the identity formation of adolescents, adolescents are better able to explore identity issues in families where disagreements with parents are permitted. An aspect of authoritarian parenting: parent-adolescent communication fosters the exploration of identity by encouraging the exploration of identity alternatives, parental communication focused on helping adolescents to understand themselves better also promotes identity exploration. Adolescents in ethnic minority cultures: the identity quest for ethnic minority adolescents is likely to be more complicated. Preserve ethnic traditions so that their children have pride in their ethnic heritage. And simultaneously provide support for their children"s membership in the mainstream culture. Parental support of the identity quest of their gay and lesbian adolescents. It is important for parents of gay or lesbian adolescents to: When parents don"t accept a youth"s sexual orientation: leads to significant stress in the parent child relationship.