Highly involved fathers also contribute to increased mental dexterity in children, increased empathy, less stereotyped sex role beliefs and greater self- control (Abramovitch, H. 1997. Images of the "Father" in The Role of the Father in Child Development. M.E. Lamb, Ed., New York: John Wiley & Sons). They do the bare minimum, and that’s just so they can get that child support so they don’t have to get up and work like normal people.
“Words give us symbolic vehicles to communicate our creations and discoveries to others”. When Sonny told his father that he adopted a kid, the specific words he used had a strong influence on the dad’s reaction. Beebe, Beebe, and Ivy also noted that “when you label something good or bad you use language to create your own vision of how you experience the world”. In this particular scene, Sonny was stuttering a lot and his words symbolized his confusion of the current situation. Beebe, Beebe, & Ivy (2012) noted that “words and actions are tools we use to let someone know whether we support them or not”(p.76) Jack Gibbs has researched supportive and defensive communication for a couple years now and he defines defensive communication as “a language that creates a climate of hostility and mistrust”(p. 76-77) In the scene the father uses crude language and even goes to the extent of saying that “the kid would be better off living in a dumpster than with Sonny” (Adam Sandler).
Describe how the Psychodynamic Approach might be used to explain aspects of John’s behaviour. As the Psychodynamic Approach focuses on behaviour and feelings being rooted in childhood, this approach would explain that the way Johns parents were with him, demanding but very distant have affected John’s behaviour towards others later on in life. John’s boss reminds him of his father and as his father was very critical towards him, he feels that his childhood experiences are being replicated at work. From his experiences in childhood they are now becoming conscious in his adulthood by the anger he is showing towards his family. How would the Biological Approach explain John’s aggressive behaviour?
Similarly Steinberg (1990) found that securely attached adolescents were more likely to maintain healthy relationships with their parents than those classified as dismissive or preoccupied. Attachment cannot account entirely for our adulthood; there are other risk factors that could influence our development. These include medical conditions such as aspergers and dramatic life events such as parental divorce or bereavement. Zimmerman (2000) assessed attachment in a longitudinal study by comparing the classification of 44 children aged 18 months and again at 16 years of age. Having also collected details of significant life events, he found securely attached children could become insecurely attached or vice versa, after experiences such as
This could be because adoptive parents are far more likely to have a counselor see a boy than a girl. This may be because a boy is more likely to run away or start fights at school. Is this all the adopted kid’s fault, not really as research shows this could merely be associated with placement instability and adoption disruption’s. Pre-adoptive abuse variables turned out to be connected with internalizing and externalizing problems. If an adoption goes smooth normally research shows that it was a positive factor in determining a child’s outcome.
Avoidant children often have rejecting parents, which leads to them developing an internal model which makes them think they are unacceptable and unworthy. The continuity hypothesis provides an explanation for why these early experience which lead to certain attachment types go on to affect relationships in adult life, as attachment type remains fairly stable over a lifetime. The internal working model developed in childhood influences a person’s expectations and attitudes towards relationships. The theory predicts that securely attached people are more likely to have stable relationships, compared to resistant types who are likely to be clingy and avoidant types who aren’t comfortable in relationships. Hazan & Shaver conducted an experiment which lends support to Bowlby’s concept of the IWM.
All a father wants is the best for their sons; however, some fathers tend to push their sons into something they might not be interested too. Because of these high expectations, it can cause risk between their relationship and loss of interest. A Father’s Expectations
Compare and contrast the approach to studying children’s friendships taken in the Bigelow and LA Gaipa (1975) study with that taken by William Corsaro. [pic] In early infancy, children’s most important relationships are those with their primary guardians and other family members. Initially, relationships with other children are far less important than those with family members. However the importance of children’s peer relationships develop throughout childhood and by the teenage years most young people tend to use friends as their main bases of social and emotional support. Childhood friendships serve as a training ground for future relationships in which social skills, such as persuasion and resolving conflict, can be developed.
"A central finding to my research," says Wallerstein, "is that children identify not only with their mother and father as separate individuals but with the relationship between them. They carry the template of this relationship into adulthood and use it to seek the image of their new family." Except in the case of premature death, marriage embarked
This may also have effects on the marriage. Even if a man may not have begun a family of his own, he may have parents and siblings that would be affected by his conscription. Overall, the strains on the personal life of a conscripted soldier would be