Mothers & Fathers
generations, fathers
today are much more
involved
in
childrearing.
¨ But mothers still do
most of
the
childcare – even
moms who work.
so we're thinking
about mothers versus fathers in American culture it is common to have
mother and father dynamics we all know that there are plenty of single
parent families but when we're comparing previous generations to
current generations we know that fathers are much more involved in
raising their children last year right So what historically might
contribute to
changed quite a bit for sure earlier in the 1900
cultural shift right so kids are to be seen not heard so that's a very
like arms length approach to the right and that had some merit
especially prior to you know sterilization in terms of like medical
equipment a lot of times infants and young children didn't survive so
in that case there's some explanation for why these parents very early
pretty good so this is my dad's kind of old picture but she was kind
of a compared to other you know fathers or the family that I knew he's
very involved in both mine and my brothers in childhood and my mom was
very work sentence so she really likes to work she worked a lot she
got her PhD while we were growing up so she was gone a lot and so our
dad took on a lot of the roles giving us to school getting us
breakfast made with teachers used to do my hair braided hair and put
her in so he's kind of a baller and he's very like nurturing my mom on
the other hand it's kind of got arms length and not super nurturing
parent so we have kind of that opposite still do a lot of the
childcare and child rearing even when they are working but regardless
of whether you have you know a mom and a dad or both working
professionals it's likely that your mom still did a lot of the
childcare childbearing that the trend that we see even involve
LGBTQ Families
Children of LGBTQ parents are shaped by social
context and
family processes.
¨ No differences in mental health or
psychosocial
adjustment for children with lesbian or gay
parents
compared to children of different-sex parents
-
children in same-sex parent families fare as well
as
children in different-sex parent families (Pollitt et
al.,
2020)
Less research exists for children with
transgender,
asexual, or bisexual parents
¨ Research also
lacking in the inclusion of
intersectional identities (i.e.,
race, SES)
¨ Negative school climates have been linked to
more
child victimization in lesbian/gay parent families
¤
Child-teacher relationships may amplify or mitigate the
impact of
peer mistreatment (Goldberg, 2022)
another caveat for modern
families is the inclusion of LGBTQ families so don't feel politically
there's a lot of information they just spread around that for some
reason children in these families aren't faring as well this is not
true right in terms of the literature that we have there are no
differences in mental health or psychosocial adjustment for children
with lesbian or gay parents last research is going to exist or does
exist currently or the other kind of sections or identities that this
within the sunbrella right so when we're comparing these children with
same-sex parents and children with different parents we're seeing that
they fared equally well at least in terms of just general health
related and well-being
research is driving up in warm water we
also know that research is taking or not taking into account
intersectional identities so when we have multiple identities that
aren't as common right or are common but discriminated against this
can definitely influence the outcomes of children in these families
right specifically related to how other people treat you rather than
how your parents treat you directly right so how does your school kind
of react to your parents coming in right they can definitely depend on
where what resources do you have or do you lack based on your
socioeconomic status and your parents identity it's hard to compare
here when we're just looking at maybe white lesbian moms versus
multiple identity individuals who are raising children as a single
parent or with multiple persons so the only thing that we're seeing at
least currently in the literature again this is new literature
compared t
Role of parents in middle childhood
Compared to early childhood, children spend
less time with
parents
¤ And even less time with parent of the
opposite
sex
¨ Coregulation
¤ Give-andtake
¤ More
child
autonomy
¨
“Free-range”
and
“helicopter”
parents
how do our
relationships with our parents change as we get older you know infants
throughout early childhood they're very attached to our caregivers
right require a lot of attention from them we require a lot of
resources from them they are our sources shelter food and love
typically trade safety but as we age we're moving further on into
elementary school gearing up for little school we're gonna start to
separate a little bit from our parents or we are going to start to
crave some autonomy a little bit more and when that happens we start
to spend less time with the family unit and we are going to spend even
less time considerably with the parent of the opposite sex so if you
have ever experienced a close bond if you're a daughter with your
mother that's pretty typical or if you're a son very bonded with their
father that's also very personal right if you just have a single
parent right maybe your relationship is still just as close here we
just don't see that kind of gender track but if we have a family with
a mother and a father we do see a a trend here for that gender
comparison
so here's a fun conversation that last class we kind
of got into it so coregulation is important for a parent child
relationship especially in childhood going into adolescence so this is
the idea of give
what you want it's crazy yeah so here's a quick
video about free range versus helicopter and I'll kind of take some
answers after this our children were raising the generation we've got
some tips from the remove you think your fingers or your shakes if you
still have them Israeli this semesters you don't have anything
Siblings
¨ For many, the longest relationship you will ever have.
¨
Positive sibling relationships associated with
positive
developmental outcomes.
¨ Siblings contribute to
theory of mind development
¨ Differential treatment by parents
(actual or perceived) can
contribute to sibling conflict.
¨
Sibling rivalry increases during middle
childhood
¤ Worse
when
n Parent makes comparisons
n Siblings close in
age
n Siblings are same sex
so with younger siblings right I
sometimes I find out with my own brother orange five years apart but
there are things that he just doesn't know how to do but you can call
them you know that right he's like I would say it's like this modern
approach like a little bit yeah yeah so tailor your approach I think
is good because not every child is the same especially within a family
a lot of different people and we get very expensive like yeah yeah
yeah definitely so there are a lot of expectations with Denver based
on you know who we are in terms of our family unit what is our role
right so let's shift a little bit from family and
parenting to
siblings which I'm sure some of you or if not all of you have at least
one sibling somewhere someway I have one biological sibling that is my
little brother Kyle we're about four and a half five years apart been
pretty good buddies we did fight a lot growing up that yeah and then
my family kind of diversified quite a bit with my parents remarried
and then these are her two kids Brian and Maddie and I had other
stepsiblings and my mom ended up splitting up from that family so I
don't know I'm sure they're OK super close anyway so I don't think so
you can count them as bio or stepsiblings or whatever so this has lot
different from last class last class I had a ton of DMF but I do see
some people who are answering in that range too which is super cool
cool so i want you to turn to someone next to you we're gonna last
longer than your relationship with your and so if you're not on you
know good terms with your siblings now when you think about maybe you
can but for those of you who do have those relationships right those
are pretty large positive sibling relationships are associated with
positive developmental outcomes so I would love of socialization here
lots of with you know morality thinking about moral judgment and
parents we also know that there's benefits in terms of like motor and
siblings are goin