PSYC 4176 Study Guide - Child Support, Job Sharing, Corporal Punishment
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Evolutionary origins of families: assuming responsibility for children"s enhanced survival, fathers invested care and time. Extended relationship between a man and women increased male certaintly the child was his. Confidence necessary for him to provide mother and child with food and shelter and to invest in child rearing: extended kinship groups also held. Included ties most often with grandparents, but also aunts, uncles, cousins, ect. These larger clans offered greater chances for successful competition with other humans for food, and other recources, and also for the protection and rearing of offspring. Family as a social system: interaction of family members: parents don"t mechanically shape their children. Instead, family members mutually influence one another: family system: a network of interdependent relationships, bidirectional influences. All parties in the interaction influence each other: direct influences. How people act with each other: indirect influences. : viewing the family as a coplex set.
