1. Parenting
Chapter 11

2. Lecture Outline Roles Involved in Parenting Transition to Parenthood
Parenthood: Some Facts
Principles of Effective Parenting
Single Parenting Issues

3. Parenting and the Family
The family as a social institution
How might you define “parenting?”

4. Roles Involved in Parenting
Caregiver
Emotional Resource
Economic Resource
Teacher

5. What are the biggest problems confronting parents today?

6. Roles Involved in Parenting
5. Protector
-Oppositional defiant disorder
**How much influence do peers have on children? Is this influence greater than that of parents?
6. Health Promotion
7. Ritual Bearer

7. Transition to Parenthood
How do Mothers and Fathers experience the transition to parenthood differently?

8. Transition to Motherhood
Pain and Joy
Oxytocin
Baby Blues
Postpartum Depression
Postpartum Psychosis

9. Transition to Fatherhood
Anxiety-Status and Role shift
Gatekeeper role
How does active involvement of a father benefit children?

10. How does the addition of children affect a couple’s relationship?

11. Transition from a Couple to a Family
Marital happiness
Parents vs. nonparents
Mothers vs Fathers
# of children
Conflict and loss of freedom
Marital Stability

12. Percentage of Couples Getting Divorced by Number of Children

13. Parenting Styles Two dimensions to parenting: Responsiveness
Demandingness

14. 4 Parenting Styles Permissive Authoritarian Authoritative Uninvolved
Gender differences?

15. Principles of Effective Parenting
Time, Love, Praise and encouragement
Monitor activities and drug use
Set limits and discipline
Provide security
Provide sex education
Nature?
Get ready for the teen years!

16. What challenges do single parents face?