Adult Adolescent Parenting Inventory (AAPI-2) Pre-Test: The AAPI-2 assesses the parenting and child rearing attitudes of adult populations. The five areas assessed are: Inappropriate Expectations‚ Empathy‚ Corporal Punishment‚ Role Reversal‚ and Power Independence. Scores are presented as a Sten‚ or Standard Ten‚ which range from 1-10. Scores within the norm lie from 4 through 7. The scores are reported in a Standard ten format‚ with numbers from 1-10 representing different percentages of the population
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Attachment Theories and Parenting Styles Humans are social beings and need to be with others and form relationships but our relationship behaviors do not "come naturally" and they need to be learned similar to other social skills (Schneider‚ Gruman & Coutts‚ 2005‚ p.77). Many psychologists argue that the kind of relationships infants have with their primary caregivers is the blueprint for the later life relationships (Schneider‚ Gruman & Coutts‚ 2005). Behaviors in adult relationships’ are influenced
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Families Single-parenting and Families Single-parent families in today ’s society have their share of daily struggles and long-term disadvantages. This research investigates the effect of single-parent family structure on demographic trends based on the census‚ the challenges of everyday single-parenting‚ the effects on children on how society views them for coming from a single family‚ and economics of single-parent. Overall this paper examines the challenges of single parenting as well as what
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------------------------------------------------- Single Parenting is not Child Abuse ------------------------------------------------- Ms. Manning II Discovery Johanna Moore This essay is about why I disagree with Donald Pridemore’s statement that says “Being raised in a single parent home could be considered living in a abusive situation and because of that people should not jump into divorce and find alternatives.” Child abuse is the physical‚ sexual or emotional mistreatment or neglect
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MANUAL ON EFFECTIVE PARENTING (Enriched Parent Effectiveness Service) This manual is taken from a publication of the Department of Social Welfare and Development‚ with the permission to freely review‚ abstract‚ reproduce and translate‚ in part or in its entirety‚ as long as it is not for sale or for use in conjunction with commercial purposes. MODULE ONE MYSELF AS A PERSON AND AS A PARENT Sessions in this module: Session 1 Session 2 Understanding Myself as a Person My Self-esteem as a Parent
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Cited: Cameron‚ Paul and Cameron‚ Kirk. “Homosexual parents”: Adolescence‚ Vol. 31 Issue 124‚ p757-770. Web. “Homosexual Parenting.” Issues & Controversies On File: n.pag. Issues & Controversies. Facts on File News Services‚ Web.10 Dic 2010. http://www.2facts.com. Penn‚ Denise. “News Bytes.” Lesbian News 35.8 (2010): 9. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Web.10 Dic. 2010
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Single Parenting “No one can be a single parent‚ and likewise‚ no one can alone bring a child into this world.”…Shoshana Alexander A young twenty four year old girl who just finished college should have nothing but her whole life to look forward to. A girl who just got a job as an aide in an elementary school‚ has many friends and a family who loves her. She is a girl who loves to hang out and be as normal and free as a twenty-four-year-old should be. But she has come to the conclusion that
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Authoritarian Government vs. Democracy Authoritarian and the Democracy have different governments. The different authoritarian governments are absolute monarchy‚ dictatorship‚ and totalitarian. Democracy and Authoritarian have different kind of structures. Both have different laws‚ and have different expectations. There are different types of Democracy’s. There is a Constitutional Democracy‚ Direct Democracy‚ etc. Democracy has many differences from Authoritarian. Democracy leaders are chosen in
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Parenting/Childrearing Practices In the African American culture‚ parenting has been referred to as demanding‚ directive‚ and non-responsive discipline that can be viewed as negative parenting in other cultures. Parenting can be defined as the process of showing and giving physical‚ social‚ and emotional upbringing of a child. The word parenting is referred to the activity of raising a child and usually provides a child ’s physical needs and protecting them from harm; while having an impact on
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Nancy D. Polikoff looks at the fundamental desire of queer women to have children. With that‚ a queer couple or individual women can have children through various forms such as adoption. According to Polikoff‚ queer women are not immune to a culture of obligatory motherhood. She goes on to state that “we are girls before we were aware lesbians‚ and we were raised by families that expected us to be mothers. We read the same books and saw the same movies as our heterosexual sisters. And today we live
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