 |  Child Psychology: A Contemporary Viewpoint, First Canadian Edition E. Mavis Hetherington,
University of Virginia
Ross D. Parke,
University of California
Mark Schmuckler,
University of Toronto at Scarborough
The Family
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| authoritarian parenting | Parenting that is harsh, unresponsive, and rigid, and in which parents tend to use power-assertive methods of control.
| | | | | authoritative parenting | Parenting that is warm, responsive, and involved yet unintrusive, and in which parents set reasonable limits and expect appropriately mature behaviour from their children.
| | | | | compliance | Going along with a specific request or rule.
| | | | | extended family | Typically, a family that includes many relatives, such as grandparents, aunts, uncles, nieces, and nephews, within the basic family unit of parents and children.
| | | | | joint legal custody | A form of child custody in which both parents retain and share responsibility for decisions regarding the child's life but which generally provides for the child to reside with one parent.
| | | | | joint physical custody | As in joint legal custody, parents make decisions together regarding their child's life but they also share physical custody, the child living with each parent for a portion of the year.
| | | | | latchkey children | Children who must let themselves into their homes after school because a parent or both parents are working outside the home.
| | | | | permissive parenting | Parenting that is lax and in which parents exercise inconsistent discipline and encourage children to express their impulses freely.
| | | | | self system | The sense of self as distinct from others combined with such things as stored knowledge of past experiences related to the self, awareness of being judged by others, and the capacity for self-evaluation.
| | | | | self-regulation | The child's ability to regulate his behaviour on his own, without parental reminder (Chapter 12). Also his ability to inhibit or direct his actions to conform to social and moral rules (Chapter 16).
| | | | | socialization | The process by which parents and others ensure that a child's standards of behaviour, attitudes, skills, and motives conform closely to those deemed appropriate to his or her role in society.
| | | | | traditional nuclear family | The traditional family form, composed of two parents and one or more children, in which the father is the breadwinner and the mother the homemaker.
| | | | | uninvolved parenting | Parenting that is indifferent and neglectful and in which parents focus on their own needs rather than their children's needs.
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