Families

1
Families

• Chapter 4

2
Emotional Relationship between Teens and Parents

• Overwhelming Majority of Teens
• Feel close to parents
• Respect parents judgment
• Feel loved by parents
• Respect parents as individuals
• 20 of U.S. teens say that their top concern is
  not enough time with parents

3
Is there really a Generation Gap?

• Your experiences

4
Intergenerational Values

• Little evidence of a generation gap
• Adolescents and parents have similar beliefs
  about the importance of
• Work
• Educational ambitions
• Occupational ambitions
• Particular personal characteristics

5
Gap between Generations

• Exists in matters of personal taste
• These are more transitory preferences (compared
  to values shaped over time)

6
Family Relationshipsat Adolescence The Parents

• The Adolescents Parents at Midlife

7
Family Relationshipsat Adolescence
Transformations

• Transformations in Family Relations
• Adolescents play a more forceful role
• Biological/cognitive maturation at puberty throws
  the family system out of balance

8
Adolescent Development and the Changing Family

• Adolescents and Divorce
• Quality of relationships
• Process of going through a divorce

9
Adolescent Development and the Changing Family

• Economic Stress and Poverty
• Parents under financial stress are
• Harsher, more inconsistent, less involved
• This leads to problems for the teens
• Adolescents in these conditions
• Heightened risk for psychological difficulties
• Heightened risk for problem behaviors

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The Importance of the Family in an Adolescents
Development

• Adolescents who feel that their parents or
  guardians are there for them caring,
  involved, and accepting are healthier, happier,
  and more competent than their peers