Chapter 14 Family

Question	Answer
Social systems perspective	Viewing the family as a complex set of interacting relationships influenced by the larger social context.
Coparenting	Mutually supporting each other's parenting behaviours.
Child-rearing styles	Combinations of parenting behaviours that occur over a wide range of situations, creating and enduring child-rearing climate. Styles include autoritative, authoritarian, Permissive, and uninvolved.
Authoritative	Style of child rearing. The most successful approach, involves high acceptance and involvement, adaptive control techniques, and appropriate autonomy granting.
Authoritarian	Style of child rearing. Is low in acceptance and involvement, high in coercive control, and low in autonomy granting.
Permissive	Style of child rearing. Is warm and accepting but uninvolved. Either overindulgent or inattentive and thus engage in little behaviour control.
Uninvolved	Style of child rearing. Combines low acceptance and involvement with little behavioural control and general indifference to issues of autonomy.
Psychological control	Attempt to take advantage of children's psychological needs by intruding and manipulating their verbal expressions, individuality, and attachments to parents.
Coregulation	A form of supervision in which parents exercise general oversight while letting children take charge of moment-by-moment decision making.

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