Exam 10: Raising Children in a Diverse Society

The hope that research in child development offers to parents who make mistakes is that children can be surprisingly __________.

It is estimated that __________ U.S. children are in foster care.

Identify and give an example of each "style of parenting," as identified by Diana Baumrind.

Asian American parents often used the Confucian training doctrine, which stresses all EXCEPT which of the following qualities?

As wards of the court, foster children are financially supported by the state.

The __________ census was the first to offer citizens the option of identifying themselves as more than one race.

Compared to the average 29% for all Americans over 24 years old, 52% of which racial/ethnic group has completed four years of college or more?

The __________ parent's attitude is "I am in charge and set/enforce the rules, no matter what."

In what ways do Mexican Americans and Asian Americans share similar parenting challenges?

Children under 18 make up about one-quarter of the homeless.

The average age of children in foster care is __________years.

___________ are biological or, much less often, adoptive fathers who do not live with their children.

Racial/ethnic stereotyping often gives us an exaggerated, negative image of __________ as parents.

For the majority of women, the decision to be a single mother is less than deliberate. The textbook refers to these women as ____________

Compare and contrast the childrearing concerns of lower-income and higher-income parents. Include specific responses to the following questions: a. What concerns are likely to be similar for all parents regardless of social-economic status? b. Which concerns may be unique to certain parents of a particular social-economic status?

Explain what makes the transition to parenthood particularly difficult when compared to other adult roles such as spouse or worker.

What percentage of new mothers experience postpartum depression?

More __________ mothers than European American mothers spank their children.

According to historian Phillipe Ariès, the concept of childhood as different from adulthood did not emerge until about the __________ century.

Working-class parents tend to use which model of parenting?