...environmental dominants. People are affected by external forces although they can choose how to behave. Bandura further claims that one effect of observation of models can lead to the acquisitionof responses and to the change of frequency of behavior already learned. Social learning theory explains human behavior in terms of continuous reciprocal interaction between cognitive behavioral and environmental influences. Within the process of reciprocal determinism lies the opportunity for people to influence their destiny as well as the limits of self-direction. A direct and complex interaction may positive interactive reflection of a good relationship. It is clearly important that for any individual, a constructive environment may help to maximize his full potentials in dealing with future undertakings; the parents and significant others place more importance influencing the total-well-being of an individual. The child’s first place of contact with the world is the family. The child, as a result requires initial education and socialization from parents and other significant persons in the family. The parents are, in short, the child’s first teacher. They are the first and primary source of social support for young children. When parents are involved in the education of their...
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...myriad of things about a person based on their childhood. Professor George Lakoff, a Professor of Linguistics at UC Berkeley has crafted together an insightful collection of information based of two different child-rearing models. The Nurturant Family Model which is the Progressive Worldview, and the Strict Father Family Model known as The Conservative Worldview. Exploring these two very diverse models Professor Lakoff believes that you can determine what type of political mind a child will have based on their upbringing. Which do you think you were? To be succinct, The Nurturant Family model is one of being cared for and cared about, having one's desires for loving interactions met, living as happily as possible, and deriving meaning from one's community and from caring for and about others. With that being said, Professor Lakoff feels that the child will have the highest moral values such as empathy and responsibility; effective nurturing is imperative based on these two moral values. In society, nurturant morality is expressed as social responsibility. This requires cooperation rather than competition, and recognition, and recognition of interdependence. Nurturant morality is help don’t harm approach. The Nurturant Family model is characterized by these values: Strength, Safety, Protection, Fulfillment in Life, Fairness, Freedom, Opportunity, Prosperity, Opportunity, Community, Cooperation, Trust, Honesty, and open Communication. These values shape Progressive politics...
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...home life with a healthy family which includes parents with a healthy marriage produces children with sociable attitudes and independent mindsets. However, a dysfunctional family with unhealthy habits or broken families with single parent households help produce delinquent children with anti-social personalities and anti-social behaviors.-The Families influence on delinquency According to no- fault divorce the rate of violent crime and burglary is related to the number of single parent households with children aged 12-20. – 1993 Journal of legal studies 2, 19 citing Douglas A. Smith. This study also showed that over 53% of inmates in a state correctional facility had grown up in a household without both parents. Absence of both parents in a home creates a hostile and aggressive home life for children.-Effects of formal and informal social control. Children of divorce parents are more prone to behavioral problems and susceptible to peer pressure because they long to fit in. –Family influence on delinquency. According to a study conducted by Sara McLanahan she found that children without their fathers typically do less well than children whom grow up with both parents.-Families influence on Delinquency Children with no father in the household typically find great difficulty keeping a job, they are much less likely to graduate from high school, and in most instances never attend College, also are more likely to become teen parents.- Family Influence of Delinquency Boys...
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...Accepted: January 31, 2012 Published: March 20, 2012 The Role of Family in Educating-Socializing Children: The Case of Vietnam Nguyen Thanh Binh Free University of Berlin, Germany, Institute of Sociology, Gary strasse 55, 14195 Berlin, Germany Abstract: Vietnamese families are the first, primary and deciding factor in educating-socializing each person. It is through families that people can learn the standards, values approved by the society. Families are the first human group, which people are raised, looked after, educated and grown up. During childhood, children live in families and learn a lot by observing and teaching, and know what is wrong or right, should or shouldn’t . In Vietnamese families, fathers and mothers play the most important role in educating children. Fathers symbolize intelligence, will, and family discipline to unite children-especially sons. Mothers who are often careful, close to children everyday, find out and timely shape misleading, and better at raising children lifestyle. With tender and tactful attitude, mothers convert, persuade and teach children to love even when they grow up. Key words: Children, education, family, socialization, Vietnam A.C. Macarenco what parents do for children before the age of 5 is 90% of the result of educating (Chuong, 2000). Therefore, wanting children to fully develop their character, and not opposed with social requirements, families must educate children from the early age make hay when the sun shines...
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...The psychoanalytic approach to literature best helps one understand the novel. All My Puny Sorrows, a novel written by Miriam Toews, explores the relationship between two sisters, Elfrieda and Yolandi. Elf, the older sister, is determined to die whereas Yoli spends most of her time trying to keep her alive. The family dynamics present in this novel influence the characters to a great extent. When applied to the novel, this approach helps one understand that family influences one’s decisions. It also helps the reader realize that family control makes one become disobedient. Finally, the novel illustrates that childhood experiences from family contribute to the way one later functions as an adult. Yoli is the main character in the novel who shows that family dynamics influence one’s decisions. When Elf asks Yoli to take her to Switzerland, Yoli is uncertain about whether she should...
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...relationship between father involvement and divorced father’s psychological well-being. According to Ryff (1989) psychological well-being is active engagement in a number of existential challenges. The father not successful in marriage or divorced was not achieved Erikson’s generativity which they were unsatisfied and not well-being. However, the positive relationship between father’s senses of competence involvement in child-related activities was stronger for divorced fathers. Research consistently shows that positive father involvement provides important benefits to children. Father involvement is negatively associated with divorced father’s psychological wellbeing...
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...University August 11, 2013, Year “Seventy percent of all children will spend all or part of their lives in a single parent home.”(Dowd)The family structure has changed significantly in the last fifty years with higher percentages of marriages ending in divorce, and higher rates of childbearing out of wedlock. In this study the writer will show that the children of these families are affected dramatically both negatively and positively? Problem Statement Children being raised in single parent homes have a higher chance of poverty, delinquency and high school failure. Background of Study The US census bureau reported that 30 percent of children live in a single parent home. Are children that are raised by one parent verses both parent receiving the short hand of the deal? Children with single parents were twice as likely to have psychiatric disorders, attempt suicide, and abuse alcohol, and three to four times more likely to use narcotic drugs”.(The Lancet,25 January 2003.) In 2009 the New York Times found that the time spent with a single parent during the formative preschool years seems to have particularly bad effects on a boy’s education,” (Shelia Fitzgerald Krein,, 2009.) Single mothers who work outside the home appear to provide greater incentive as role models for their daughters than there sons, The role-model influence in the case of the girls appears to compensate for the loss of the mother’s time at home. Children from single parent homes are much more...
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...his paper is devoted to the issue of singe parenting as one of the important family problems. A single parent is a parent who lives with one or more children without the second parent. Usually the definition of single parenting depends upon the local laws, but there are other cases as well, for example if a parent is left alone after the divorce, after another parent just leaves the family or the child, if the second parent is put to the jail or is dead. It is not necessary that the single parent is natural mother or father of the child, some people choose to adopt a child or become a parent through artificial insemination or just take care of a child, who was left by his natural parents. The household of a single parent differs a lot from a usual household. Certainly all situations are unique, some people choose the path of single parenting consciously, and some are made to bring the child up alone. There are a lot of negative moments about single parenting, there are some positive as well. For example, if a person takes care of a child alone, he has always the freedom to choose and to make all the decisions on his own. On the other hand making decisions can be really hard sometimes and really often people feel the need for somebody’s support and a piece of advice. Usually single parents do not have enough time to do all the house work and thus involve children from the early age in doing chores. Single parents have to discuss most of house matters that should be actually solved...
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...Breastfeeding is commonly promoted by different medical organizations because of its benefits on both the mother and the child. Yet, there are still stigmas connected to the topic that determine the mother’s view of breastfeeding. This stigmas often correlates to the factors that influence mother’s feeding choices, initiation of breastfeeding and even the compliance or continuation of breastfeeding. An article on CBC news Canada, in Montreal, reported that a breastfeeding woman, named Candyce Sousa, was asked to stop nursing her child inside Walmart because it was said to be an inappropriate action. Such incidence greatly affects the mother’s attitude towards breastfeeding. These gives rise to the factors that influence her breastfeeding choices....
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...Question 1 Drawing on the theories and concepts of family influences on athletic development presented in Study topic 2, discuss how the Romeao parents can promote an effective environment for their children’s athletic development. Introduction In answering the question above I will first reflect upon the family unit and then go on to discuss the support currently offered by the parents of the Romeao children and how this support may affect the children’s athletic psychological development. I will draw upon the concepts of achievement theory (Dweck, 1999 and Nicholls, 1984, 1989) and Eccles (Eccles et al 1983, Eccles 1993) expectancy-value theory discussing the family influences on the Romeao children’s goal orientations. The Romeao family are introduced through a video with transcripts from the mother, father and some of the children. Romeo, a boy, is the first born, Venus a girl the second born, the video concentrates mostly on their athletic development in their chosen sports. The Romeao family have a further 4 children, two girls, Angel and Isis and two boys, Achilles and a baby, Caesar. Good intro. Nice signposting Discussion I feel the Father, Tony, has determined that some of his children will be given what he feels is a strong supportive and motivating climate to influence them to compete at an elite level in a chosen sport. His reasons for this seem, on the surface, quite selfish. He desires to be the father of an Olympic champion and he thinks if his son becomes...
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...my senior year of high school I was faced with an ethical dilemma that could have either ruined my father’s business or a friendship I have had since I was five years old. During the summer of 2010 I began working for my father at his Italian restaurant where he was the chef. After about a month of working with pretty good pay my friends started asking me if they could also pick up a job. When I noticed that a dish washer position was available I immediately told my friend of about twelve years and he began working with me five times a week. The weekdays at the job were good because the restaurant was not as busy but when the weekend started it became apparent that my friend was not fit to work such an intense and fast paced job. After about a month of my dad observing my friend and seeing if he could develop into an efficient dish washer for the restaurant he realized that he just was not cut out for this kind of job. This was when my father told me that it was my job to make a decision about whether to keep him or to let him go. It was my responsibility to fire my friend to better the efficiency of the restaurant but it was holding me back because of how much I care about him. When looking at my personal values, I have always held my friends and family to a standard that required me to always be loyal to them. Having a Colombian background has really molded me to always care the most about the people who are closest to me which really made this ethical dilemma a tough one...
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...Parental influence in sexual decisions of teens and adolescents. Parents can be one of the strongest influences in an adolescents’ life. Studies have shown that higher levels of parental involvement in their child’s life are linked with lower levels of delinquency, violent behavior, high school dropout and drug abuse as well as with higher levels of educational attainment (Moore & Zaff, 2002). For this study, we will look specifically at parental influence to reduce adolescent/teens decision to become sexually active at an early age. There are many reasons why this topic warrants deeper research. Early adolescent sexual experience is said to be lined with various risky behaviors, including unwanted pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases (Kirby et. al, 2005, Ryan et. al, 2008). With huge emphasis placed on the role parents have in their children’s’ lives, it is conceivable that their impact can play a role in deferring teens/adolescents from engaging in sexual activities thus lessening the dangers that surround sexual promiscuity. It is also extremely critical to understand if parental involvement has a connection with the timing of a teen/adolescents initial sexual encounter. Child Trends analyzed the most recent data published from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (1997). This cohort study attempted to investigate how parenting practices that happen before their adolescent/teen become sexually interested and active will affect their decision...
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...The Phenomenon of “ Father Absence” Reflections on Zweig’s Letter from an Unknown Woman. Abstract The father-absence is a widespread phenomenon in the society nowadays. However, it is recently that people notice the psychological importance of father as a significant influence on female character development. Empirical research has demonstrated various negative outcomes for females in single-parent homes such as being overshy, self-abandoned as well as indifferent to the sorrounding, all of which influence their life-choice. This paper deals with this problem mainly from how psychologically father-absence affects the development of the female character which strongly decides their fate based on Stephan Zweig’s novel: Letter from an Unknown Woman. Key words: father-absence， the Name-of-the-Father 1. Introduction Letter from an Unknown Woman is one of the most famous novels composed by Austrian writer Stephan Zweig. Its cyclically-told tale of romantic yearning and pining for love is embodied in the doomed, delusional relationship of the two romantic leads: a young neighbor girl's steadfast, sacrificial love for a self-absorbed, dilettante writer. Zweig uses the form of the woman’s monologue as a letter to show us a tragic story of her whole life: how she falls in love with her neighbor, keeps faith for him through her whole life while the man has never recognized or remembered her. Many critics believe that the root-cause of this love-tragedy lies in...
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...According to Huck, “The Widow Douglas, she took me for her son, and allowed she would sivilize me” (Twain 1). Though the Widow was relatively gentle in her control of Huck, she represents society’s influence on Huck, and she has a majors impact on Huck’s life, educating him and teaching him manners. Miss Watson on the other hand, attempts to control even Huck’s smallest actions, saying “‘Don’t put your feet up there, Huckleberry;’ and ‘don’t scrunch up like that, Huckleberry - set up straight;” and pretty soon she would say, “Don’t gap and stretch like that, Huckleberry - why don’t you try to behave?’” (Twain 2). She also attempts to teach Huck how to pray, although Huck eventually decides that praying will not do any good for him. These two women pressure Huck to change his actions and habit in order to conform to society, representing a part of the influence of society on the...
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...the factors that influence academic performance of students have attracted the interest and concern of teachers, counselors, psychologists, researchers and school administrators in Nigeria (Wiseson, 2001). This is because of the public outcries concerning the low standard of education in the country. The declining quality of education in the country and the breeding of graduates with little technical know-how have resulted in serious setbacks to the industrial development of the nation (Amin, 2005). Different factors are capable of influencing the academic performance of students. Such factors may be the student's internal state (intelligence, state of health, motivation, anxiety parental care etc.) and their environment (availability of suitable learning environment, adequacy of educational infrastructure like textbooks and well-equipped laboratories). Ajila & Olutola, (2000) argued that home environment or family has been recognized as having a lot of influence on the academic performance of students. Ichado (1998) stated that parents’ constant disagreement affects children emotionally and this could lead to poor academic performance in school. The family lays the psychosocial, moral and spiritual foundations in the overall development of the child. However, the mother played significant role in the formation of a home and her roles cannot be over-emphasized. Studies on father-child relationship suggest that the presence of a father in the home influences significantly...
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