Infant childcare can have a positive affect on a child’s life, particularly if the child comes from a lower socioeconomic background. When examining the effects of infant childcare one must also understand that the family situation and background will have a much larger effect on the child, as the family culture will determine what type of childcare is used, and the level of quality in the child care. For example, higher levels of family income and education, as well as sensitive parenting and child centered attitudes, are generally correlated with better quality child care… The available evidence leads to the conclusion that child care parameters, especially quality, are likely to be particularly important for children whose family environments are less than optimal (Hungerford and Cox 2006). Increased family income can also have a positive effect on a child, and infant daycare often allows for a family to have two income sources rather than one. When a household has increased income it creates an opportunity for the family to obtain higher quality level of childcare, resulting in increased benefits and effects of infant childcare.
‘Examine the ways in which childhood can be socially constructed.’ By Sara-Beth Cartwright Sociologists see childhood as a socially constructed, which means that it’s something created and defined by society. They argue that the position that children occupy in society is not fixed, but differs between times, places and cultures. It is generally accepted in our society today that childhood is a ‘special’ time of life, and that children are fundamentally different from adults. There is a belief that children’s lack of skills, knowledge and experience means that they need a lengthy, protected period of nurturing and socialisation before they are ready for adult society and the responsibilities that come with adulthood. As Jane Pilcher (1995) notes, the most important feature of the modern idea of childhood is separateness.
Sociologists say that modern day families are no longer dominated as they were last century and before. In Talcott Parsons’ (1955) model of the nuclear family, the husband was an instrumental role providing for the family financially making him the bread winner. While the wife was an expressive role meeting the families emotional needs making her the homemaker, a full time housewife rather than a wage earner. However, other sociologists have criticised Parsons’ theory. Michael Young and Peter Willmott (1962) argue that men are now taking a greater share of domestic tasks and more wives are becoming wage earners.
The main three I will focus on are family functioning, economic status and a two-parent versus a single-parent household. All of these factors hold a key role in the juveniles’ upbringing and the role they play in society as well. These factors also lead to delinquency if the family is not a properly functioning family. A theoretical view of social disorganization will explain why and how family structure impacts juvenile delinquency. This paper will also look at possible racial, gender, and other variations in the family structure-delinquency relationship.
Describe and analyse how social factors impact upon children and young people and consider how your setting and practice can reduce the negative impacts on those factors The Social Context of Childhood This assignment will evaluate how children are socially constructed and how this has altered over the years. What social factors impact on children and how poverty and deriving from a large family can impact on children's childhood and life chances. It will also highlight how schools can reduce the negative impacts on those factors in various ways. The author's setting is a small primary school in a deprived area in the North East of England with an average amount of children receiving free school meals. There are many social factors that have a negative impact upon children for example, poor housing, poverty, lack of employment, living in deprived areas, health problems and large families.
Examine the view that childhood is a social construction A social construction is used to describe something that is created by society. It differs from place to place, culture to culture and time to time. Childhood is seen as a social construction as there is no ‘fixed’ experience of childhood, what kind of childhood a child in the UK goes through will be drastically different to the kind a child in Kenya, or middle ages Britain went through. Therefore, childhood is not universal but constructed by society and in our culture, many different factors contribute to this construction. One of the most prominent things to examine when looking at what causes childhood to be socially constructed is the work of Aries (1960).
Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) welfare requirements These are designed to support providers in creating settings which are welcoming, safe, stimulating, allowing children to grow in confidence, enjoy learning and fulfil their potential. There are 5 welfare requirements applying to children settings: * Safeguarding and promoting children’s welfare * Suitable people looking after children * Suitable premises * Suitable environment and equipment * Organisation and documentation Chatterbox Policies and Procedures Chatterbox has policies dealing with safeguarding children, equal opportunities, health and hygiene, health and safety, and record keeping. * Safeguarding: children’s rights and entitlements, looked after children,
How do ideas about childhood and families influence practice? The essay will first establish childhood and how the term ‘childhood’ has different meanings for different members of society. I will then go on to look at Social Constructionism and how this can shape our views of how it is an influence on the practice of working with childhood and families by looking into areas of childhood that are constantly changing and discussing how gender roles are an important value to society and how these have changed over recent decades and changing the attitudes of social construction. I am also going to discuss how ones identity can have an impact on practice provided and discriminations that children and families with disabilities can face from practitioners. The term childhood refers to the early stages of your life course, but it is important to understand that views and ideas of when childhood stops and the stage of becoming a young adult varies between the views of children, adults and different societies.
This changed after the Civil War, giving women their right to speak up and become more like men. The role of many women had change from a homemaker to being able to provide for the family by either getting a job. In addition, they were starting to be allowed to have a voice. Not only were they allowed to go out and start getting jobs, but the right to vote was also starting to come out. Without the changing role of women, things that we have in everyday life as American’s could possibly not exist.
Feminists criticise Willmott and Young who suggested that we are currently in ‘The symmetrical family stage’ where chores are shared equally between the women and men. Feminists argue we are not in this stage as women still do the majority of housework. This is backed up by Anne Oakley’s finding that only 15% of men have a high level of participation in housework. Radical feminists argue that the patriarchal system needs to be overturned and to do this, women must learn to live independently. Delphy and Leonard (1992) argued that the inequalities between partners in the home are a result of the fact that the head of the household is almost always male.