Kathleen is five years old and an only child. ... From the outset, low involvement with the child is a risk factor in this case (Hoff, 2013). ... In addition, Lauren became a parent too early in life and thus had limited knowledge of child rearing. ... Due to stressors such as her lack of financial resources and single parenthood, Lauren was so overwhelmed by child rearing that she hardly read to, sang with or played with her daughter (Kreppner and Lerner, 2013). ... Reduced parental involvement in a child's learning is a risk factor that is manifested in single parenthood, teenage parent...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The more conflict involved in a divorce, the more the child is exposed to the overt unhappiness of their relationship. ... When conflict has domain dimension this suggests there will be disagreements over a series of divorce issues such as financial support, property division, custody, and access to the children, or to values and methods of child rearing. ... Maccoby and Mnookin's data was able to indicate that one quarter of divorces were highly conflicted when it came to child rearing behaviors around three and a half years after separation. ... At the 10 year follow up one child was re...

• Word Count: 1943
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Infancy and Early Childhood Development Development of a child begins in the womb. ... When rearing children, each parent style is different and dictated through custom in every society. ... Permissive parents style rear their children with high nurturance and communication with little punishment, guidance, or control. ... These parents demand maturity, are forgiving and rarely punish if the child falls short. ... The child will form lasting relationships with parents and siblings. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

For her, childhood was the period during which each child could become its 'real self', the endpoint of personality development. ... In contrast to Freud's view that the parental role facilitated children through psychosexual stages of development, instead she espoused a view that positive parenting was needed to facilitate the development of the child's 'real self' by nurturing a feeling of belonging in the child. ... After the age of five, a critical period in childhood, he believed a child's internal working model of relationships is resistant to change....

• Word Count: 2229
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• Grade Level: Graduate

In 1933 he came to the U.S. and became Boston's first child analyst and obtained a position at the Harvard Medical School. ... He studied combat crises in troubled American soldiers in World War II, child-rearing practices among the Sioux in South Dakota and the Yurok along the Pacific Coast, the play of disturbed and normal children, the conversations of troubled adolescent suffering identity crises, and social behavior in India. ... Going beyond the of a child's early life, Erikson concentrated on broader issues of peer culture, school environment, and cultural values and ideal...

• Word Count: 1831
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate