Parent-Child Relations: The Nurturing and Interdependent Stages

In today’s society, most families consist of both parents working and with that comes the conflict of shared childcare, nurturing and shared household responsibility. Since the day of old, it was and always has been the mothers’ responsibility to care for the child and the home. To cook, clean, feed the children and attend to the husband's needs. Of course, this concept also depending on the culture of which the couple was brought up on (Kaakinen, Coehlo, Steele, Tabacco, & Harmon Hanson, 2015).

The amount of care a newborn child needs is immense, in some cases this is like a full-time job. Parents who are not able to give this nurturing to their child negatively affect the overall well-being of the child. Most emotional and psychological problems arise from the way a child was taken care of from birth all the way through adolescence. However, not every pregnant woman is able to provide for her child due to finances, relationship stability, age, living conditions or

It also involves social context and behavior. At around 12 months the Attachment relationships are by insecure-avoidant and insecure-resistant types. Disorganized attachment is where the parent seems to be disconnected and dissociated with the infant. Parenting style and behavior tend to interfere with the children’s formation of attachment. Parental intrusiveness is a no contingent, verbal directives or physical behaviors in parents that constrain the children’s activities and behavior. In this study parents believed that discipline and control and child temperament had no significant correlation now were they correlated with attachment disorganization. Child gender did significantly show a higher disorganization for boys than girls negative intrusive parenting at age 6 months, parental belief in discipline and control at age 6 months, and child difficult temperament at age 6 months. Overall, Negative intrusive parenting did have an impact on attachment disorganization and children temperament. Negative intrusive parenting style can lead to provoke fear in young children which then reflects to the children being disorganized attachment as early as 6 months. Parenting style has a large effect on the child’s attachment and temperament as they grow older. Parenting strong belief in discipline and control could lead to a long term consolidate and stabilize negative

Research in parenting styles has found a large amount of correlation between parenting behavior and certain long-term outcomes for children. Specifically, parenting styles have been shown to correlate to a child’s obedience level, school competence, delinquency, violence, sexual activity, antisocial behavior, alcohol and substance abuse, depression, anxiety, and self-perception. The members of your family are the most prevalent relationships you will have in your life. Therefore, they will have the most influence in your future behavior. This paper examines the similarities and differences among authoritarian, authoritative, permissive, and neglecting parenting styles and the effects on a child’s development and the resulting adolescent’s behavior.

If a woman saw the infant and think it were hungry then naturally she would breast feed that child. When this happens, then that baby becomes the ‘child’ of that woman, and the rest of the family will assume a relationship to it.

There are several parenting styles which guide children throughout their life. These parenting styles can be either good or bad and this will have an effect on the child; either a positive or a negative one. This essay investigates the parenting styles from which emerge questions about the role of the mother and the father. It also focuses on the ways that either too much mothering or too much fathering might have an effect on the child’s identity later on in its life.

There are many studies focusing on levels of attachment and the quality of the parent-child relationship starting at birth and moving up through infancy. These studies have found that the infants involved in the study could be categorized as either having a secure or insecure attachment to their caregivers. Some children grow secure attachments with the caretaker from the daycare and thus have weaker relationships with their parents. Researchers have found that there could be variations on how critical the attachment is effected based on sex, age, and individual personality. The attachment can also vary from parent to parent; for example, some studies have found that at infancy, boys are more effected by the absence of the father while at daycare (Quan, et al., 2013). On the other hand, some could argue that these effects aren’t negative and that the ability to socialize outside the family at an early age could possibly aid the child to grow up with more confidence and adaptability (lecture, 10/12/16). There are also other factors that could be taking place when a child is seen shying away from a stranger or if they still seem distressed when seeing the parent again after separation, as seen in the Strange Situation. Inconclusive results can make it seem that, for example, personality or situational factors like being tired could affect and skew results (lecture, 10/12/16). It may seem that there are harmful effects to the early parent-child relationship, however, there are

The purpose of this longitudinal study was to determine what, if any, effect maternal behavior has upon gender differentiation in developing infants. Specifically if the type and amount of physical contact between mother and child

Bonding or attachment between mothers and their children has been a topic of research for many decades. John Bowlby, a British psychologist, psychiatrist, and psychoanalyst began his work with attachment began in the early 1950 's and continued through 1990. His theories, along with Mary Ainsworth 's research, an American-Canadian developmental psychologist, was the basis for Attachment Theory. Ainsworth and Bowlby 's collaboration on attachment eventually led to the current classification of attachment styles used today by researchers and practitioners (Bretherton, I., 1992).

Hanson et al. (2015) created a family-based-in-home-treatment intervention to help substance abusers recover from addiction, while learning appropriate parenting for infants and toddlers. This intervention is important because it provides mental health for both the parent and the child. The intervention is composed of substance abuse treatment, individually psychotherapy, parent-child relational support and developmental guidance. A complete biopsychosocial assessment must be conducted to identify strengths and risk factors. Team members observe urine toxicology screen and provide positive reinforcements such as a ten-dollar gift card for negative results. Parents who receive a negative result have to attend a weekly group session as a negative reinforcement. The Department of Children and Families in Connecticut refer the majority of the families that participate in this program. The purpose of the program is to keep children at their home, while working with parent’s addiction. Clients include fathers and mothers of children under the age of three years. The program implementation has been successful because providing home services eliminates treatment barriers and facilitates client’s engagement. Team members are able to understand the client by experiencing firsthand the family dynamics and its environment. By focusing on the child wellbeing, the team members are able to convince unwilling parents to participate in substance abuse treatment. Of the

My first observation was located in the Target grocery area in Camarillo on Monday February 24, 2014 at 3:45 pm. I observed a family of four consisting of Person #1 Man (30-35 years) Person #2 Woman (30-35 years) Person #3 Boy (5-6 years) Person #4 Girl (3 years). The father was pushing a basket with the 3-year-old little girl in it and the boy was walking around with his mother as she shopped.

Mark Knapp developed a theoretical model to which identifies the stages of interpersonal relationships which explains how relationships begin and grow, as well as how they deteriorate and end. This model defines ten separate stages of relational development under three different interrelating categories; Coming Together, Relational Maintenance, and Coming Apart. An analysis of a personal relationship through the use of Knapp’s stages of relational development leads to a better understanding of that relationship and our role within it. In this essay I will be analyzing a personal relationship of my own using Knapp’s stages as a guide. However, these stages are subjective to each individual’s unique situation. Therefore, I will only be examining my relationship in the “coming together” stages. Furthermore, it is possible to pass over or amalgamate stages, as these stages are closer to a guide rather than set rules. For this analysis I will be breaking the “coming together” stages into initiating, experimentation and intensifying, integration, and bonding.

When it comes to raising a kid every parent wants to be the best parent. Many of them wonder if they are giving the right environment for the physical and behavioral growth of their kids. The reality is; most parents do not remain the best parents or at least good parents.

Frank Perderson and his colleagues in 1977 conducted research on what the link was between spouse relationship and parent-infant relationship. “Perderson and his colleagues believed that the three units of interaction (mother-father, mother-child, father-child) are interrelated” (according to Perderson 1977). This showed that when the wife and husband showed positive interaction towards each other (smiling and affection) they then would show their infant affection. When there was negative interaction between the wife and husband (verbal critic and blame) it was strongly linked to negative affection shown to the infant by the father.

A father is a person that supports the family and who is there to help the mother take care of children. A mother is someone who takes care of her children in the best of her ability in the early stages of their lives, and also later on. A pair of parents’ responsibilities is to take care of the family, do what is best for their children, and teach them to walk in the right path. They are not to be selfish on their decisions to be happy by themselves without their children. The most disturbing subject these days is; Divorce caused by irresponsible parents and accusation through the custody and alimony process. People are smarter these days, and end their marriage before it gets long enough to pay alimony, child support for their stepchildren, or pregnancy of their current spouse. With the starting of one bad parenting, there are fathers that try to accuse the mothers of adultery, which leads to refusing of the children; all to just avoid child support. They are awfully good at lying and accusing at court and to any witness they can make to write false claimed letter to the court. There is something called Joint Custody which gives two parents the right to receive their children’s welfare and not paying child support. The poor children are constantly on a visitation schedule, and have no freedom to decide what would be best for them. One mediator gets the judge to decide everything for all types of families. Irresponsible parents do anything to get what they want. If they