PSYC 2450 Chapter Notes -Single Parent, Nuclear Family, Coparenting
12 Apr 2013
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Traditional nuclear families: a family unit consisting of a wife/mother, a husband/father and their dependent child or children. Co-parenting: circumstance in which parents mutually support each- other function as a cooperative parenting team: effective co-parenting is difficult for couples experiencing marital discord and other life stresses. Extended family: a group of blood relatives from more than one nuclear family (a practice in which parents and their children live with or in close proximity to other relatives grandparents, aunts, uncles, nieces and nephews . ) The family is a network of reciprocal relationships: direct effects. Influence of two family members on each other. A relationship between members that affects another member. The family is a social system: parents relationship parenting infant behaviour and development all interconnected. Characteristics of family system: constantly developing, embedded within larger culture. Single adults, later marriage: 90% eventually marry.
