Marriages And Families Ch. 11

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Authoritative Parenting

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Parents accept the childs’ personality and talents and are emotionally supportive. At the same time, they consciously set and enforce rules and limits, whose rationale is usually explained to the child.

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Confucian training doctrine

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Concept used to describe Asian and Asian American parenting philosophy that emphasizes blending parental love, concern, involvement, and physical closeness with strict and firm control.

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Family foster care

Back 3

care that takes place in a trained and licensed foster parent’s home.

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Formal kinship care

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Out-of-home placement with biological relatives of children who are in custody of the state.

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Foster care

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Care provided to children by other than their parents as a result of state intervention.

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Grandparent families

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Families in which a grandparent acts as primary parent to grandchildren.

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Group home

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One type of foster-care setting in which several children are cared for around-the-clock by paid professionals who work in shifts and live elsewhere.

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Hierarchical parenting

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Concept used to describe a Hispanic parenting philosophy that blends warm emotional support for children with demand for significant respect for parents and other authority figures, including older extended-family members.

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Laissez-faire parenting style

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Overly permissive parenting.

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Para-parent

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An unrelated adult who informally plays a parentlike role for a child.

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Parenting alliance

Back 11

The degree to which partners agree with and support each other as parents.

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Parenting style

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A general manner of relating to and disciplining children.

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Primary parent

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Parent who takes full responsibility for meeting the child's physical and emotional needs by providing the major part of the child's care directly or by managing the child's care by others or by doing both.

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Shared parenting

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Mother and father who both take full responsibility as parents.

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Temporary assistance for needy families (TANF)

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Federal legislation that replaces aid to families with dependent children and whereby government welfare assistancec to poor parents is limited to five years for most families, with most adult recipients required to find work within five years.

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Transition to parenthood

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The circumstances involved in assuming the parent role.