Exam 13: Families

When a father does not reside with his children, the best way to measure his impact on his children's development is to measure

A wraparound program is one that

Recent research on the effect of maternal employment on infants' cognitive development found that

__________ of American families with children eat dinner together _________________.

Describe five ways in which life for children in single parent families is likely to be different from those in two-parent families.

The family system is made up of

One explanation for why siblings growing up in the same family have such different experiences in their nonshared environment is that

Parents who have a great deal of warmth and affection toward their children, but have few, if any, rules and restrictions, and give their children an equal say in family decision making are classified by Baumrind as

The incidence of stepfamilies in the United States since the early 1900s

The proportion of children in the United States who live in single-parent families has not significantly changed since 1994.

A teenager has stayed out past his curfew. Describe how an authoritative, an authoritarian, a permissive and an uninvolved parent would respond to this situation.

The mapping of a biological family is called

Explain what open adoption is. Discuss the pros and cons of open adoption for adopted children.

One of the challenges for children who are in foster care is that most of them believe their foster family will become their permanent family.

A nuclear family consists of

Only 20% of fathers who were not married to their baby's mother at the time of the birth were in contact with the child one year later.

What percentage of children today live in a family with two married parents in their first marriage?

When a parent is going through a divorce, the parent may become harsher in disciplining her children. The children may react to this harsh discipline by acting out even more, which makes the parent, in turn, increase the harshness of her discipline. This is an example of

Compare the parent effects model, the child effects model and the transactional model of parent- child interaction.

In Latino families, __________ is a cultural value that includes a strong desire to maintain family ties, to be loyal to the family, and to give the needs of the family priority over one's own needs, together with a belief that one's family will be available to provide instrumental and emotional support when it is needed.