Parenting

Chapter 11

Lecture Outline

• Roles Involved in Parenting• Transition to Parenthood• Parenthood: Some Facts• Principles of Effective Parenting• Single Parenting Issues

Parenting and the Family

• The family as a social institution

• How might you define “parenting?”

Roles Involved in Parenting

1. Caregiver2. Emotional Resource3. Economic Resource4. Teacher

• What are the biggest problems confronting parents today?

Roles Involved in Parenting

5. Protector-Oppositional defiant disorder

**How much influence do peers have on children? Is this influence greater

than that of parents?6. Health Promotion7. Ritual Bearer

Transition to Parenthood

• How do Mothers and Fathers experience the transition to parenthood differently?

Transition to Motherhood

• Pain and Joy– Oxytocin

• Baby Blues• Postpartum Depression• Postpartum Psychosis

Transition to Fatherhood

• Anxiety-Status and Role shift• Gatekeeper role– How does active involvement of a father benefit

children?

• How does the addition of children affect a couple’s relationship?

Transition from a Couple to a Family

• Marital happiness– Parents vs. nonparents– Mothers vs Fathers– # of children– Conflict and loss of freedom

• Marital Stability– # of children

Percentage of Couples Getting Divorced by Number of Children

Parenting Styles

• Two dimensions to parenting:– Responsiveness– Demandingness

4 Parenting Styles

• Permissive• Authoritarian• Authoritative• Uninvolved– Gender differences?

Principles of Effective Parenting

• Time, Love, Praise and encouragement• Monitor activities and drug use• Set limits and discipline• Provide security• Provide sex education• Nature?• Get ready for the teen years!

• What challenges do single parents face?