Exam 9: Children and Parents

In studies of white, middle-class families in Iowa who were under economic pressure, Elder and Conger found that fathers in these families

The "typical" adoption in the United States since the 1970s has declined due to

Associations between having a single parent and poor child outcomes such as delinquency are stronger in African American families than in white families.

Children in persistently poor families show surprising resilience and are no more anxious and depressed than other children.

To reach a clearer understanding of how a parent's occupation would affect his or her parenting style, describe what you think the typical household of a physician and his or her children would be like compared to the typical household of a textile factory worker and his or her children. In your description, include what you think the number of children would be in each family, where those children would attend school, who might keep preschoolers if the mother works, and how those children might be disciplined and influenced in values, goals, and achievements.

Discuss how mass incarceration has had an effect on African American children.

Compare the well-being of U.S. children today with the well-being of U.S. children in the early 1900s.

What kind of class bias may be guiding Baumrind's analysis of different parenting styles? In other words, who determines what a "socially competent" child is? Who defines "high" self-esteem, and so on?

Which of the following is a factor that some scholars say comes in the way of the application of the three-category classification of parenting styles?

Describe and explain why the adoption system in the United States has changed in the past three or four decades.

How does being raised by same-sex parents affect children?

The transformation of the U.S. economy over the past few decades has hurt many parents and made child rearing more difficult.

About half of the disadvantages of living in a single-parent family are due to