Amenze Oronsaye
Growing up, I’ve always pictured having a family of my own. I would live in a big house with my husband and four amazing kids, two boys and two girls to be exact, and our Bichpoo named Choco (yes, as in Chocolate but pronounced in a cool Spanish way). To most people, this would be like living the perfect American life with your perfect family. Why it is that when it comes to having a perfect family with adoptive children, it’s seen as “much harder”?
A study by Martha A. Rueter and Ascan F. Koerner, professors from the University of Minnesota was made to see if adoptions between adopted adolescents in families with certain communication patterns were at greater risk for adjustment problems. They tested several hypotheses using a community-based sample of 592 families, 384 adoptive and 208 nonadoptive families. The participants were originally recruited to observational research intended to investigate sibling influences on …show more content…
According to Sociology Now by Michael Kimmel and Amy Aronson Chapter 11 focusing on Family, it mentions that parental socialization of children is very important and they overvalue their role meaning, parental emotion-related behaviors including expression of emotion is so important that they take their job as a parent over the top. As parents, your job is to take care of your child and protect your child which can lead to overprotectiveness as a parent. This may prove that if you share this feeling of overprotectiveness, it shows an existence of a shared reality that you have with them, meaning there’s more accurate communication between you and your child and fewer misunderstandings and conflicts, which reduces the risk of child adjustment problems. This can go for either a biological child or an adoptive
Growing up, I’ve always pictured having a family of my own. I would live in a big house with my husband and four amazing kids, two boys and two girls to be exact, and our Bichpoo named Choco (yes, as in Chocolate but pronounced in a cool Spanish way). To most people, this would be like living the perfect American life with your perfect family. Why it is that when it comes to having a perfect family with adoptive children, it’s seen as “much harder”?
A study by Martha A. Rueter and Ascan F. Koerner, professors from the University of Minnesota was made to see if adoptions between adopted adolescents in families with certain communication patterns were at greater risk for adjustment problems. They tested several hypotheses using a community-based sample of 592 families, 384 adoptive and 208 nonadoptive families. The participants were originally recruited to observational research intended to investigate sibling influences on …show more content…
According to Sociology Now by Michael Kimmel and Amy Aronson Chapter 11 focusing on Family, it mentions that parental socialization of children is very important and they overvalue their role meaning, parental emotion-related behaviors including expression of emotion is so important that they take their job as a parent over the top. As parents, your job is to take care of your child and protect your child which can lead to overprotectiveness as a parent. This may prove that if you share this feeling of overprotectiveness, it shows an existence of a shared reality that you have with them, meaning there’s more accurate communication between you and your child and fewer misunderstandings and conflicts, which reduces the risk of child adjustment problems. This can go for either a biological child or an adoptive