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FAMILY 2

Family

Sonja Jordan

EDUC 1006: Child, Family and Community Relationships

Instructor Sachs

July 21, 2019

Define what a family is, and what families do. Review pages 83-105 in the course text; then describe two ways that family functioning has changed throughout history. Explain how these changes may be impacting the lives of young children and may impact your work as a professional.

Family can be defined as a group of two or more individuals who are residing together and one is the householder and they are related through marriage, birth or through adoption. Families are important in the provision of setting which ensure that there is personal growth. The life of the children is influenced by family by providing for their basic needs and protecting them. Families have good relationship with one another. They provide love to the family members, support one another and value one another. Regardless of the age of a person, family provides identity, values and security. When one of the family members feels that he or she is not secure, will turn to the family for assistance. .Social chores have changed over the recent years (Kille & Tse, 2017)). Mothers or wives used to take part in the management of the chores in the household such as washing of clothes, preparation of the meal and taking care of the children. Women used to stay in the houses and perform all duties in the house and arrange every activity in the house. Nowadays, mothers are not staying in the house as they working. Mothers with children who are below 18 years are working far away from their homes and their children are doing very well. Wives and mothers have dominated in work place as compared to their male counterparts. Another change which has taken place is single-parent families. Traditionally, family used to consist of two parents who used to take care of their children. Fathers or husband used to be the authority of the family and they had the responsibility of providing money to the family. They made sure that they have supported their family economically and their families were satisfied. Nowadays women are becoming the authority of the family and providing for their family. A single father or mother is able to raise the children alone and make sure that they are provided with all the basics needs.

Similarly, young children have been affected by the change of the social chores because mothers have less time spend with their families. Parents are too busy to get time to spend with their children and they grow up with parental love. Mothers who used to spend time with children until they reach 18 years are now very busy with their work (Garland, 2018). Children are spending much of their time in school and when they go home they are alone. There has been an issue of moral degradation because children spend a lot of time in social media and other networking platforms without supervision of their parents. Single parent also deny young children love from both parents. Some of the children fail in school because of lack of financial support from both parents and emotional problems.

Your course text asks the question: "What impact do collectivistic and individualistic parenting orientations have on children?" Review the information on pages 130-133 and Table 4.1 on page 137, which summarizes the two types of orientation. What are the differences between these two orientations? How might making generalizations about a family's orientation lead to misconceptions or other problems?

Collectivistic orientation refers to the relations that are interdependent, have shared social responsibilities and ensure that there is well-being of the group. It emphasize on the family and society’s interests over that of one person. In this orientation, parents support the principle of interdependence, consistency and concern for the family. On the other hand, individualistic orientation has its focus in fulfillment of the individual and the choice that are made by the person. In this orientation, favors are given to one person rather than a group. The differences are around the age, status and how people are treated. Collectivists are concerned about the well being of the family members and they value it so much. In individualist parenting orientation emphasis on doing well to the people who do good to you and making sure other people are treated very well. Individualists prefer direct communication so that all information is made clear.

Impacts of collectivist parenting have positive impacts on the children because they are able to grow up with their grandparents. The grandparents participate in the education and care of their grandchildren. They teach moral values as per the requirement of the society and they have responsibility for the success or failure of their grandchildren. Children understand their family moral requirements as they are taught by other family members and they grow up understanding that they should respect other people in the society (Prioste et al, 2015). The impact on individualist parenting on children is focusing on the personal goals only. Children do not understand the benefits of supporting and caring for the needs of the society. They focus on themselves and what need to be done to them. The adjustment on the behavior of the person to fit in the family is done by individual person. Children in individualist patenting orientation do not understand the benefits of sharing with the society as they are focused on their needs. Additionally, it can lead to misunderstanding and creation of negative stereotype about the orientation. People would not be able to understand how to relate with others very well due to generation. The moral teachings of the society would also be misunderstood and this creates a huge challenge. It can also lead to backlash within a community and this affect the general development of the area.

Parenting practices influence children's behavior at home and in school. Review Baumrind's four parenting styles on pages 151-155 of your text. Identify and explain the parenting style that seems to result in the most productive child behaviors. How could Baumrind's findings with regard to the outcome of parenting styles guide the ways in which you may work with families in the future

First, Authoritative parenting involves parents setting rules for their children and making sure that they discuss and reason with them. Parents have high expectations for their children in terms of achievements they make in life and they are responsive for their needs. Authoritative parents usually support their children, show them love and encourage them to be independence (Berns, 2016). This kind of parenting is very productive because children appear to be contented, happy and have high self-esteem. They have good competent social skills which they use to interact with others and have better mental health. It is one of the best parenting styles where children tend to exhibit less tendencies of violent and they have good academic achievement. Authoritative parents usually listen to their children and make sure that they share with them to understand problems which they might be facing.

Baumrind’s findings could be used in working with families in future by demonstrating ways of dealing with situation both for the parents and children. It is good for the parents to understand how they should handle their issues more so the one related to the children (Park & Lau, 2016). Some of the parents overreact when there is an issue and this is not good as they are expected to deal with the issues effectively. The information also assists in promoting pro social behavior as well as self-control when dealing with the issues of children. The findings help both parents and children in the improvement of the cognitive and social emotional competencies.

References

Berns, R. M. (2016). Child, Family, School, Community: Socialization and Support.Ceneage Brain.

Garland, J. (2018). What Is the Most Useful Definition of Risk for Family Investors?. Wealth of Wisdom: The Top 50 Questions Wealthy Families Ask, 119-124.

Kille, D. R., & Tse, C. T. (2017). Whose family fits? Categorization and evaluation of same-sex and cross-race-parent families. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, 20(1), 109-124.

Park, H., & Lau, A. S. (2016). Socioeconomic status and parenting priorities: Child independence and obedience around the world. Journal of Marriage and Family, 78(1), 43-59.

Prioste, A., Narciso, I., Gonçalves, M. M., & Pereira, C. R. (2015). Family relationships and parenting practices: A pathway to adolescents’ collecti vist and individualist values?. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 24(11), 3258-3267.