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| How has child-rearing advice changed throughout the 20th century? |
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Early 20th century focused on the childs physical and moral health.
Later 20th century focused on the childs psychological needs, personal fulfillment, and happiness. Also, the mother-child relationships. |
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| What are the feminist views on the later 20th century child-rearing advice affects? |
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| Feminists accuse this child-rearing advice to have created an approsch to motherhood that has negetive effects on the mother. Children are becoming morally neutral and psychologically vulnerable. Mothers are blamed for bad children. (No such thing as bad children, only bad mothers). |
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| The study of the instinct and behaviour of animals and its impliations for human behaviour. |
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| What are John Bowlbys views on maternal deprivation? |
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| He believes that a strong mother-child relationship is crucial for the child to develop a healthy psychological, emotional, and cognitive self. |
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| What is Mary Ainsworths Strange Situation Test? |
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1. Children are put in a room with various toys and a stranger, by the mother.
2. The mother leaves
3. When the child becomes upset, the stranger tries to console him/her
This test is to analyze the childs response to the stranger when he or she tries to comfort them. It measures the childs attachment and the quality of mothering the child recieves. |
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| What is Intensive Parenting? |
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| The social expectations placed on parents that put their childs psychological and cognitive developmental needs ahead of their own needs. |
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| Ideas and political actions in support of restructuring society to better meet demands of a global market economy, emphasizing competition, self-enhancement, and personal responsibility for problems. |
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| Name some factors contributing to how earning and caring work is divided. |
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- Constitution of family
- Health of the family members
- Availability of paid work in the community
- Ideologies of gender
- Relationships within families
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| How has paid work evolved in societies? |
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Collaborative production -- Industrialization -- Service sector -- Globalization |
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