Parenting Essay | Essay

This student essay consists of approximately 8 pages of analysis of Parent-Child Relations.

Parenting Essay | Essay

This student essay consists of approximately 8 pages of analysis of Parent-Child Relations.
This section contains 2,345 words
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Parent-Child Relations: The Nurturing and Interdependent Stages

Summary: Two case studies: a young couple who are raising their infant child, and a divorced mom who is raising a teen-ager. The example is compared to child-rearing literature on these topics: behavior problems and substance abuse; conflicts between parents and adolescents; and rules.
The first family that I interviewed fell into the Parenting Stage II: The Nurturing Stage. The couple, who are both 22-years of age, have been together for three years. They have been living together for about one year and are not married. The couple lives with the father's family: his mother and father. They are all from a Hispanic background. The father works as a computer technician and the mother is a supervisor at a bakery. There annual income is about $45,000. The couple recently had their first child together. They are the parents of a 5-week-old infant. My relationship to the couple is friendship, I used to work with the mother at the bakery but we are not that close of friends. This family has 3 major concepts that I found connected to parent-child relations:

1. Birth

2. Gender Roles

3. Child Care

There was also an important developmental issue found in...

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