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| move from larger families to smaller families |
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| reasons why? birth control, longer education, economic reasons, women have careers, more couples delaying aving children |
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%80 of US children still have at least one sidling
- sibling jealously and rivalry
-similar age, same sex, and the fathers favoirtism are the 3 factors that make them jealous and rivalry between siblings |
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stereotype are spoiled
- higher SE and achievements motivation
- problem with conflict resolution |
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never married single parent families
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%10 of american children
-%90 mothers, %10 fathers
-AA women are the largest group
better to have no partner than a bad partner |
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| children in divorced families |
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not a single enevt but a transition
- effects compared with non dovorced families children of divorce do show poorer adjestment problems
-%75 do not have significant adjustment problems
- factors related to adjestment : reduction of conflict
harmonious relationship between parents and authorativtive parenting
caring adult outside of home |
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stepfather: most common; women have fewer resources so for them this is a step out of poverty and emotional support; less active role as parent more a polite stranger
stepmother: forced to take a more active role; children in these home have more adjestments problems and are resistant to the change
- a childs age plays a huge role in how adjuestment to a stepfamily happens-- early adolescence is the hardest
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