CPSY 4331 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Parenting Styles, Nuclear Family, Ecological Niche
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More single adults postponed marriages (due to educational and career goals, 25 for women and. 27 for men) decreasing childbearing (waiting longer and having fewer children, 1. 8 on average) More women employed (63% of married women) More divorce (40-50% of couples, 1 million more children affected) More single-parent families: a family system consisting of one parent (either the m other or the father) and the parent"s dependent child(ren) (18% of children under 18 in 2002) More children living in poverty (correlated with increase in single-parent families, 1 in 5 children) More remarriage (25% of american children have a stepparent family) blended (or reconstituted) families: new families resulting from cohabitation or remarriage that include a parent, one or more children, and step-relations. More multigenerational families beanpole families- more but smaller generations. Acceptance/responsiveness: a dimension of parenting that describes the amount of responsiveness and affection that a parent displays toward a child.
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