Family Influences
I.
What is a family?
Families come in many flavors.
A.
Biological/legal relationships.
B.
What about engaged couples?
C.
Are there alternatives?
II.
Families Have Characteristics
A.
Composition--1 vs. 2 parent, stepparent, size, nuclear
vs. extended.
B.
Circumstances--SES, number of parents working.
C.
Religious beliefs.
D.
Ethnicity.
E.
Income:
Percent below poverty level (2000):
Married:
4.8
Male:
11.7
Female:
27.8
III.
Changes in Family Characteristics Over the Past 100
yrs.
A.
Setting:
1.
Urban vs. rural (now 80% vs. 20%).
2.
Move more.
3.
As adults, kids more spread out.
We live at the perimeters.
B.
Size.
C.
Parental composition of family.
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1.
Fewer children living with both biological parents (%
children)
1970
1980
1990
2000
2010
All
84
82
82
69
62
White
85
83
83
78
68
Black
72
70
64
37
33
Hisp.
NA
NA
81
65
61
2.
More children living with mother only (% children):
1970
1980
1990
2000
2010
All
11
18
22
22
23
White
8
14
16
16
16
Black
30
44
51
49
50
Hispanic
NA
20
27
25
26
D.
Your adolescent experience and that of your parents is
different.
IV.
Family Characteristics and Adolescent Development
A.
Adolescent develops in a family system.
B.
Reciprocal Socialization.
1.
Synchrony.
2.
Family members interactions.
C.
The Developmental Construction of Relationships.
1.
Continuity View.
2.
Discontinuity View.
D.
Maturation of the Adolescent and Maturation of the
Parents.
1.
Adolescent Changes.

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