1. What are the differences between being a biological parent, an adoptive parent, and a foster parent? Biological parent is a person who give birth, an adoptive parent is someone the state of being adopted. A foster parent is a parent who take care of a child by the state by temporal.
2. What financial needs are parents obligated to provide and which are optional? The financial need that parents are obligated to provide are food, clothing and housing. What are optional are neither.
3. What other needs might a child have that a parent is expected to provide? Medical, transportation, and caring, love, support, understanding, safe place to live.
4 .What are the qualities of a nurturing parent? A nurturing parent gives more love, care and support than a non-nurturing parent. I think a nurturing parent would also pay close attention to their child's needs and abilities in order to meet the needs and support/guide the abilities.
Critical Thinking Questions
1. What qualities make a person a good parent? A bad parent? What make a good parent are loving, caring. Bad parents: not showing any love or care.
2. Which parental responsibilities do you think would be the most challenging? Why? I think disapline their kids because some kids don’t like to listen to their mother or father.
3. Which parental responsibilities do you think would be the most interesting to you? Why? The most interesting thing will be letting your child leave the house when they get older because you feel alone without your child.
4. What are some things that people can do to prepare for parenthood? Something that people can do to prepared for parenthood is taking C.P.R. classes, changing your time schedule, and work schedule and waking up in the middle of the night.