Ch' 3 Families: Where Children Are Nurtured

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Ch. 3 Families Where Children Are Nurtured

• Dr. Marian C. Fritzemeier, Ed.D.

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• DUE Tonight Interview with a School-Age
  Professional
• DUE Tonight Cultural item
• Sign-ups tonight for research topics

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The Changing Family

• The definition of a family has been broadened to
  include new forms
• Nuclear family mother, father, children
• Extended family nuclear family plus other
  relatives
• Single-parent either mother OR father children
  (p. 35)

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• Reconstituted or blended remarriages that
  include his and/or her children plus theirs
• Interracial mother father from different ethic
  groups their children families that include
  adopted children of another racial or ethnic
  group (p. 35)

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• Single-gender same sex couples their
  biological or adopted children
• Grandparent only adult when both parents are
  deceased, incarcerated, on drugs, or otherwise
  unable to care for children
• Foster (Not in text)

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Effects of home environment on children

• Two-parent families, even if both work
• Advantages
• Children have fewer problems, do better in
  school, less likely to use drugs or get arrested
  when teenagers
• two adults share child-rearing tasks
• additional income if both work
• mother is a role model (pp. 36-37)

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• Disadvantages
• When both parents work
• More stress on parents
• Not enough time
• Children may feel abandoned (p. 37)

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Single-parent families

• Single-mother feelings of loss, lack of special
  kind of child rearing rather provide, low or
  decreased income
• Single-father fathers have custody of children
  by their own wish, children respond well to male
  as an authority figure, income likely to be
  better (pp. 38-39)

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Reconstituted families

• Economic situation improves
• Boys helped by presence of father
• Father may share more in child rearing
• More models to choose from (p. 39)

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Interracial families

• Children may have problems with self-esteem
• Be targets of discrimination
• Have problems developing their own identity (pp.
  39-40)

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Single gender

• Target of discrimination
• Children may consider themselves different from
  schoolmates (p. 40)

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Living with Grandparent(s)

• Additional stress on adults children
• Children may have more behavior problems
• Poorer language skills

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Brainstorm

• Brainstorm and create a list of family-related
  factors that contribute to a healthy child or
  adolescent

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Successful Families

• Affectionate express love care
• Sense of place stable environment
• Pass on cultural heritage
• Connect with posterity honor elders (pp. 40-41)

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• Promote perpetuate family rituals pass on
  traditions that encourage sense of family
  continuity
• Communicate with one another
• Respect differences among their members (p. 41)

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Large Group Sharing

• Student Activity, p. 46, 3 sharing of cultural
  items
• Think about what you are learning about your own
  cultures and/or other cultures

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Sign-ups for Research Presentations
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Poverty

• Almost 14 million children live in families whose
  income is considered below the poverty line
• Likely to suffer from problems (p. 41)

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Health Problems

• Malnutrition disease
• Abuse and/or neglect
• More frequent injury or death from accidents
• Exposure to lead poisoning (p. 41)

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Academic Problems

• May be behind in academic achievement because
  their schools are poorly equipped maintained
• Class sizes are large
• Teachers are poorly paid under motivated (p. 41)

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Psychological problems

• Children view themselves unfavorably when
  compared with those they see portrayed in films
  or on television
• Neighborhoods are run-down dangerous
• Develop feelings of hopelessness depression (p.
  41-42)

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Small Groups Helping Children Their Parents

• Group 1 Communicate with parents (p. 42)
• Group 2
• Help parents see children's behavior
• Encourage parents to use knowledge to bring about
  changes (p. 44)
• Group 3 Parents anger fatigue (p. 44)
• Group 4 Families sharing cultural ethnic
  traditions (p. 44)

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Graphic Organizers

• Title
• Most important points with key words or phrases
  (NO SENTENCES!)
• Drawings that correspond with information