Paternal Influence From a very young age my parents have provided me with information on which they have hoped for me to develop my own thoughts and opinions. They never once told me what to think about anything, they merely acted as a medium through which I received facts for my consideration. My father would tell me about his childhood, his early years taking place surrounded by coal towns before any solid regulation standards were enacted. The harmful environmental effects from the practices of these mines were, as he stated, “evident in the streams that ran orange with sulfur and were void of all life.” The idea of this picture sickens me, and with recent political moves to weaken the EPA and it regulations, it has become clear that we could be on a path leading back to the way things were. …show more content…
The environment that surrounded him shaped him into who he is, so the surrounding sulfur creeks and dead streams concerned him greatly. By the time my dad started junior high there were numerous local streams that were polluted or even killed by the acid run off of both surface and deep coal mining. This was highly troubling, but over the next couple of years in the mid to late 1970s there was a huge reversal in the damage with the signing of the Clean Air and Water acts. This information always seemed so foreign to me, I couldn’t really imagine the impact of losing these trout streams I’ve grown up with. It’s not just the fishing either, so many species of fish and other stream life being wiped out of an area would devastate the local environment. Species such as raccoons, opossums, beavers, muskrats, and other mammals as well as aquatic birds would be greatly impacted by the loss of these streams. There would be an even greater negative impact on insect life, for without these feeding, breading, and birthing grounds many species would be threatened or even
Recently, a contractor working for the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) unintentionally released 3 million gallons of toxic mine waste into the Animas River in the Mountain West state of Colorado. Today, people in the US are debating the efficacy of the EPA (the right-wing is using the spill as anti-government propaganda) and the toxic aftermath the spill will undoubtedly have on local economies, communities and ecosystems. So far, the spill has "contaminated the Animas River, San Juan River, and the Colorado River in Utah."
There is not one set way when it comes to parenting and how parents rise their child or children. A psychologist named Diana Baumrind, studied different parenting styles and their effect on child rearing. She came up with three types of parenting styles: authoritative authoritarian, and permissive. Then a fourth parenting style was added by Maccoby and Martin later on uninvolved parenting (Cherry, 2014). I will explain these different styles on the effect they have on a child weather a young child or adolescence.
Many psychologists throughout history have indulged in studies related to parenting behavior and how children are affected from such behavior. The work of Diana Baumrind, which is considered to be one of the most influential and well-studied theories of parenting behavior, was the first to identify three styles of parenting (Sclafani 44). These styles of parenting are called authoritative, authoritarian, and permissive. This paper will further explain descriptions of these styles and the typical behaviors of children as a result of each style. This paper will also provide insight on the parenting style I was raised on along with my thoughts on types of discipline I might use in the
The most abused social problem is absent fathers. When a child’s father dies, there is no quick fix unless the mother gets remarried. Whereas if the father is alive and knows about the child, but disregards to care for or recognize his kid, is what is being abused. A life without a father is barren. Two parents are better than one without a doubt. If someone were to believe that anything positive arrives from fatherless raised children, my thought is, why? How do you? How do you suppose a kid enter the world from an absent fathered family, and conform in a relatively masculine world? How do you come to believe that being raised without a father doesn’t harm a kid’s objective on life? Do you think that kid will acquire an equal amount of love,
Children are affected by the way they are raised, which is carried into adulthood. Children learn most everything from their parents and often adopt certain traits from their parents. According to. Cultural immersion, social development, and behavior are what affect a child’s development as they progress into adolescents. In the Bible, there is evidence that the way a child is raised is the way they will grow up and act like: “Start children off on the way they should go, and even when they are old they will not turn from it” (Proverbs 22:6). This incorporates that once a child has adapted to a certain lifestyle they will never stray away from that mindset because that was what the parents taught the child. It starts from the earliest part
This study explored the relationships of authoritative and authoritarian parenting styles college students received during childhood, love-oriented rewards, object-oriented rewards, and the student’s academic success. The statistical analysis that will be used to preform this study is a two by three; within subjects two-tailed ANOVA to determine the significance between groups. The question at hand, does different parenting styles (authoritative and authoritarian) associated with reward (love-oriented and object-oriented) affect academic success, will show a significant affect. Authoritative parenting style is predicted to show a high response rate to a love-orientated reward while authoritarian parenting style is predicted to show a high response
In most magazines nearly 16 percent of articles included fathers. ‘The influences of the fathers were ignored” according to Rohner (2002) fathers were urged to participate in the discipline of their children, and in their daughter sex education, in fact fathers were viewed as their son’s role model and a husband model for their daughters. According to Rohner (2002). The Culture of fathers in America is placed on one’s behavior, and to understand the culture of fatherhood, one has to understand its counterpart. According to Rohner (2002). The mother according to society elicits a warm, nurturing feeling where the term father elicits masculinity, feelings of being less affectionate, emotionless, rigid and tough. Americans often shared those ideologies;
Every parent disciplines their child differently, and each style of parenting can have life-long psychological effects on the personality and character traits of the child. Of course, no two personalities are the same - people are going to be who they want to be, regardless of their upbringing. However, the way that parents raise their children has a lasting affect on who they become, regardless of whether the child stays in their parents teachings or not. Studies have indicated that there are four main types of parenting. Obviously no two parents are the same either, as mentioned earlier, and therefore these parenting styles will differ from family to family. The four parenting styles include authoritarian, authoritative, permissive, and the most recently discovered, uninvolved parenting.
The earliest experience society has with authority and leadership is within their own family. Often times the running of households is compared to the running of one’s country in the sense of each individual’s self reliance, hard work, and personal responsibility. The driving force behind political differences and beliefs can be dictated back to the way one was brought up. The question of how people can analyze the same issue and draw polar opposite conclusions is often the basis for all theories and methods researchers have proposed. The unbridgeable divide between the Republican and Democratic parties in the recent presidential election support the hypothesis of hidden assumptions and frames that dictate how every individual thinks about politics, all being shaped by personal values. The metaphor of America being one big family is drawn into the fact that many consider families to be governing bodies and governing bodies to play the role of parents within a household, thus drawing the conclusion that governing institutions are families in the greater scheme of things. Researchers have discovered two main family dynamic
The influence that parenting styles can have on a child’s identity and emotional stability can be positive, negative or a combination., The impact o on numerous occasions I have observed parents and children in their natural stated, and I have focus on how the children are behaving. I have often wondered that is what I am observing the children natural state. The study of emotional development is a critical link to a better understanding of emotional problems when they appear throughout the life span (Broderick & Blewitt, 2015).
Although authoritative and authoritarian parenting styles sound similar, they are different approaches with very different outcomes. “Authoritarian parents are highly demanding and directive, but not responsive” (Darling, 1999). They expect their children to be obedient. These parents want their children to have strict rules and live in well-ordered environments. “Authoritarian parents want their children to agree with their decisions, principles and goals without any questions” (Baumrind, 1989). They are highly psychologically controlling. They also use physical punishment such as spanking or slapping. On the other hand, authoritative parents are approachable. They are assertive, but not restrictive. They discipline children by supporting
[Figure 4] shows a carrier mother and an unaffected father and the chances of them having an affected/unaffected son & carrier/unaffected daughter in the figure above.
The less content, insecure, apprehensive, less affiliative with peers, and more likely to be hostile under pressure children had parents that displayed a more authoritarian style of parenting. That these parents were less nurturing, less involved, offered little reasoning behind decisions, were very firm, expected obedience without question, discouraged expression, and appeared more frightening to their children were given the authoritarian
The purpose of this is to provide an overview of the research on who becomes a father, the many problems fathers experience before and after they father a child. As well as, how they respond to their duties as fathers, their multifaceted service needs, societal treatment of being a father, and the difficult challenges associated with recruiting fathers and retaining them in-service programs. The experience of fatherhood will be explored through asking, what being a father meant to them. Major themes include the perception of fatherhood, “being there” and responsibility, the importance of fathers, self-image as fathers, and obstacles to fathers’ involvement. Harmful stereotypes such as young males who got their female partner pregnant, and then
On our planet, there is a small community of people in a town called Lost Hills, California. An unhealthy misery has struck Lost Hills. Lost Hills has lived in terrible and harmful conditions ever since toxic gas has been spilling out into the atmosphere out of oil and gas wells. These toxic gases poison the people every day leaving them exposed to several health defects such as bronchitis, lung cancer, birth defects and other adverse defects that are drastically overwhelming. These people suffer from these defects because oil companies choose to leak all of these toxins and choose to poison these poor people to make quick money, talk about inhumane. People cannot live without a clean supply of water; it is a need that everybody has and these gas and oil wells take that away from the people of Lost Hills. These toxic emissions poison the water supply everyday with their gases and this makes the people truly distraught. Without a refreshing supply of water to help these people live another day, more and more people will suffer at the fate of these oil and gas wells, contaminating the community of Lost Hills California and its atmosphere. (Prupis 2)