F11-Family Influences(1)-1 - Family Influences I What is a...

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.

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.