13 Parenting Styles and Family Structure NAME: ______
Outline for Taking Notes
1. Regardless of parenting styles and/or abilities, remember, parents ______
their children, and 99% want to do a good job.
2. What are 4 things that influence a parent's choice of parenting style?
A. ______
B. ______
C. ______
D. ______
MOST PARENTS USE SOME COMBINATION OF PARENTING STYLES.
3. The ______parenting style is the most traditional style
historically. It is based on the use of power.
______LOVE ______LIMITS
GIVING ______
Parents using this style value structure, obedience, and respect. They believe in the family hierarchy, spanking, and the underlying assumption that the parent always knows best. If the child dares to ask "why?", the parent would respond ...
______
4. The ______parenting style was promoted and later discouraged
by the most leading authority on child care during the latter half of the 20th century ... Dr. Benjamin Spock.
______LOVE ______LIMITS
GIVING ______
Parents using this style view themselves as their children's ______and fear that they will not be liked if they have hard and fast rules. They are, therefore lenient and inconsistent. The children can often become manipulative, self-centered, and selfish.
Parents take a "hands off” approach, allowing their children to learn from the consequences of their actions. Unfortunately, in today's society, permissive parents often want other figures of authority to be permissive also, and often question teachers, coaches, activity leaders, etc.
5. The ______parenting style is not considered adequate for the care and nurturing of a child. It lacks emotional involvement and supervision of the child.
______LOVE ______LIMITS
GIVING ______
Parents using this style do not view themselves as bad parents, but do not possess the skills for good parenting. They might be indifferent, distant, unengaged, non-communicative, self-absorbed, unstructured, detached, and sometimes cruel.
6. The ______parenting style is considered the best for today’s society, and is often called the democratic or balanced style since it is based on the democratic principles of equality and trust.
______LOVE ______LIMITS
GIVING ______
Parents using this style model right and wrong by their words and deeds, give children reasons for limits, and use discipline to teach rather than to punish. Children raised by this style learn to accept responsibility, make wiser choices, cope with change, and are better equipped to succeed in a work-force which relies on cooperative problem-solving.
7. When we refer to the ______, ______family, we are talking about a family with a husband wage-earner, wife homemaker and dependent children. This type of family structure once accounted for 46%, but now accounts for less than ______percent of all American households.
Name at least two factors, historically, that have kept families from reaching or keeping this ideal family structure:
______
______
8. The family unit is very important. There is a direct correlation between a family founded on a lifelong marriage and low incidences of:
______, ______, ______
______, and ______.
9. Men and women relate differently to their children. For example, how do men verbally communicate compared to women?
Men ______
Women______
10. A high amount of ______and level of ______between parents and children has an enormous, positive impact on a child’s development.
11. When human beings make the decision to have children, they must set the “family” as their number one…
______.
12. A key characteristic of single-parent families is the limited ______,
including: ______, ______, and ______available to them... whether the single parent is the mother or father.
13. Nearly 60% of children in single parent families are living in poverty. Less than ______of all child support is paid in full. Lower incomes relate to:
a)Lack of health insurance
b)Improper medical and dental care
c)Lack of immunizations
d)Hunger/malnutrition
e)Inadequate shelter.
14. Statistical obstacles of growing up in a single-parent household:
a. children are twice as likely to ______
b. children are more likely to have their own marriages ______
c. children are at the highest risk for ______
15. Approximately 43% of all children are growing up without a father in the home, due to divorce, unwed mothers, abandonment, death, etc. The child who grows up in a home without their father present is more likely to…(T or F):
_____Drop out of school _____Be in prison _____Run away ______Rape someone
_____Abuse chemical substances _____Commit suicide _____Be abused
_____Get poorer grades in school _____Exhibit behavioral disorders _____Die young
_____Run away from home
16. ______families is another name for step-families. One of the most unique characteristics of this family is that the biological parent and ______have a longer history and stronger ties to each other than the biological parent and spouse.
17. Although nearly 50% of divorced people remarry within 5 years, ______% of all remarriages end in divorce. Single mothers of daughters are the least likely to remarry, citing the fear of bringing men into their homes who have the potential of abusing their daughters.
18. Research comparing children raised by homosexual parents to children raised by heterosexual parents has found ______in intelligence, psychological adjustment, social adjustment, or peer popularity between them. Children raised by homosexual parents have fulfilling relationships with their friends as well as romantic relationships later on.
19. ______- ______families are those with a member of the older generation (grandparents) living with them and their parent(s) OR living with them INSTEAD of their parents.