ktmeng/mec huggingface dataset:
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On the other hand, social compensation hypothesis suggests that online communication is beneficial to people who are isolated and socially anxious since they may feel more comfortable when forming friendships in such environments. This hypothesis was proved in a relatively recent popularity study based on young people’s use of Facebook where it was observed that a high percentage of users with low self-esteem tend to reveal more information regarding themselves in online environments than in real-life settings. Furthermore, a majority of them admitted to having posted exaggerated information regarding their life just to look popular on this social platform. Overall, internet and technology is not the major cause of negative or positive outcomes. Instead, individual and contextual factors are the ones that determine the effects of technology and internet on people’s relationships and social interactions. At a time when internet access has increased all around the globe, it makes sense that most children will have some form of online presence. As such, they can expect to make friends fast in this environment. However, parents/guardians are cautioned that excess use of these platform could have deleterious effects on relationships especially with their families. For instance, new handheld devices and cellphones have been known to undermine family practices especially during meals. These practices are very important in terms of maintaining family connectedness, particularly in this fast-paced world. For this reason, the adverse effects of technology on these practices should indeed be a matter of concern for all stakeholders because this may significantly hinder optimal growth of a very important bond; the family bond.
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Finally, unmetered access to technology and particular websites may also negatively affect children’s physical activity and thus their overall physical health. Researchers have dedicated a lot of research on this area, with the major concern being that spending more time on digital technology automatically results in reduced time for physical activity. This in turn leads to health problems including obesity, overweight, and cardiac problems among others. Majority of studies suggest that physical health problems among children cannot be solely tied to the time that they spend online and the content they access. Notwithstanding, these factors cannot be completely eliminated in expanding constructive discourse, which would inform policy making and sensitize parents on best practices in assuring the physical well-being of children.
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While there is sufficient evidence to show that American children are not active enough in comparison to historical statistics, the increase in overweight and diabetes can indeed be tied to technology, contrary to what most people believe. This connection is established through caloric intake. Essentially, most of the screen-based technologies have encouraged indiscriminate eating as well as intake of high levels of calories. Additionally, children have become more exposed to advertisement regarding food products, leading to poor food choices on their part. Specifically, exposure to food advertisements has led to poor eating habits and excessive caloric intake. Other negative physical health outcomes related to uncontrolled use of technology are computer vision syndrome and digital eyestrain. These conditions develop in children due to excessive use of digital gadgets and screens. They are characterized by dryness of the eyes due to exhaustion, headaches, and short sightedness in some cases. Some of the recommended actions that parents need to take to prevent this negative effect on children include limiting the time that children spend looking at screens, encouraging them to engage in outdoor activities, and ensuring that they get enough sleep.
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It is the responsibility of parents/guardians to protect their children from dangers that may result from the use of technology. According to UNICEF, the rights of children in this digital era should always be protected in respect to their evolving capacities. This implies that with respect to their maturity and age, children need assistance to understand and apply the terms and conditions concerning the use of a product, website, service, or application. Furthermore, children should not be asked for informed consent regarding the collection and subsequent processing of personal data at an age where it clear that they lack that capacity. Guardians and parents should also play an active role in terms of determining the nature and scope of content and information that children should consume and share, having taken into account their views and opinions. With full knowledge of the dangers that children are exposed to in online environments, parents/guardians should make effort to limit children’s access to technology especially for those below the age of 13.
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Furthermore, there are various kinds of tools that parent may apply to aid in restricting the type of content and length of access for their children. These include filtering and blocking, time limiting, monitoring and outgoing data blocking tools among others. These tools range from restricting access to specific sites and images, to recording children’s overall activity online and displaying warnings to them children when they attempt to access prohibited content or websites. Among these tools, the blocking and filtering software is the most popular for parents across the globe. Accordingly, various studies recommend their use in order to protect children from various kinds of risks. Notwithstanding, while formulating rules and the use of various restrictive tools on children may be helpful, there is a need to explain them and apply them in a consistent manner in order to maintain their positive impact on the children. It should be clear that the aim of these restrictions is to foster accountability in terms of decision-making and overall independence as the child grows. After all, parents may not always be present to enforce these restrictions and children will, from time to time, push and test limits. As such, children’s understanding that these restrictions are made to enable them make better choices in life and be responsible for all their actions is a message that parents need to send.
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As the use of technology amongst children continues to be a hot topic of discussion across various circles, it is important to establish the line between what is healthy and harmful in regard to the use of technology. This will undoubtedly necessitate an individual method that involves consideration of the kid’s life context; a task that is well suited for parents/guidance given their good understanding of the child’s environment and needs. It is worth noting here that the time spent using technology does indeed affect children, with both “excessive use” and “no use” resulting in negative outcomes. Parents may pursue complete prohibition of technology use, but this would undoubtedly be untenable in the end. On the other hand, moderated use has been shown to bring about positive outcomes in terms of mental health, development of social relationships, and physical health, which justifies parental control. Certainly, blanket recommendations in terms of limiting access may not optimally work since content that is harmful to younger children may not be as harmful to older children. However, this does not eliminate the fact that parents should embrace the duty of ensuring these controls are established formally in order to avert the negative effects associated with use of these dangerous technologies and websites on children. To adapting to the unavoidable burst of digital technology, parents/guardians will be required to make various adjustments in regard to their parenting although the voices and experiences of children will need to be taken into consideration. This is especially important if constructive dialogue revolving around the harmful and healthy use of technology at school, at home, and in the society is to be achieved. Additionally, researchers contend that popularity of these technologies, particularly among the young generation, presents a huge potential in developing intervention, prevention and treatment of pediatric obesity and overweight.
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In conclusion, the rapid advancement of technology and ease of access is a trend that is expected to grow in the coming years, which calls for a constructive discourse to ensure mitigation of negative impacts and optimization of relevant benefits as far as children are concerned. Children are an especially vulnerable demographic that needs special consideration due to their low capacity to make reasonable decisions. This is particularly important given the wider range of negative effects that excessive and uncontrolled use of technology can have on children’s mental, social, and physical health. Restricting time, content, and conduct is one of the best approach that parents can employ to guarantee their children’s safety from these risks. It will therefore be interesting to see the future policy directions in relation to optimizing the benefits of technology to children while limiting the potential risks involved.
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I will be examining the relationship between an adopted child age 7 and the adoptive parents. These three people are in different crisis at different times in their lives. A topic we will discuss further in this paper. To do this I will explain this by using real life experience, and the thought process that goes through each of the people involved. Erikson’s psychosocial stages will be research based of Knowles text Human Development and Human Possibility: Erikson in the Light of Heidegger (1986).
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Erikson’s stages are all said through virtues. To help explain what each virtue is, Erikson talks about each stage of the crisis, relationships, and malignancies. In my case, we will talk about Initiative vs. Guilt. This would be known as the preschool stage, but in my situation I will be talking more about my interaction with other children and parents rather than the age portion. The relationship I will be discussing is between myself “adopted child” and my parents.
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In all honesty I would have to say trust vs mistrust should be thrown into the mix here, for myself personally. You may not know I was born in Vladivostok, Russia as Alexandra Mikhailovna Kolupaeva. I was born to Alexandra Ivanova Kolupaeva and was the youngest of 8 children all of whom were also put up for adoption, the area I was born in was very impoverished. Needless to say we did not eat well in the orphanage, nor did we receive any medical or dental care. For a Fact I had never seen a Dr.
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, or a Dentist until I moved to Seattle. My sibling and I were all separated once we arrived at the orphanage. I was at the orphanage for 4 years from what I had read in my paperwork. From what I could remember, I was young when I was put in the orphanage that I was deprived of a loving/caring relationship with any adult. Being hugged as a child was something I would try to avoid at all costs. Unfortunately I was physically abused so every time an adult went to hug me, I was prepared to be hit. The deeper we get into this paper the further our relationship between the child and parents blossoms.
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It is no small secret that the area of Russia I grew up in was poverty-stricken. I don’t know if you can even call it growing up. I was told that I was with my mom for 18 months until the day she couldn’t take care of me. My earliest childhood memories are of the orphanage. I had one older sister that I knew of but since we were different ages we were not in the same orphanage. Not only did I have lots of anger but I was filled with pain, abandonment and betrayal. Not being around any of my family members, probably caused me not to understand the family dynamic when I was adopted.
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My parents knew what they were getting into when they adopted me. They had adopted a child (my brother) a few years before from Romania, so they knew that it would be hard for me to adjust. They didn’t know that because I was older that I would be emotionally closed off from any contact. I had completely shut myself off from any affection or anything that involved family. It made it hard for my parents to help me understand that they were here to love me and give me a better life. They came to terms that I would never fully grasp the understanding of family nor want to make that bond which made them sad/worried about me down the road. My parents knew that they couldn’t give up on me, they were determined to open my eyes to show me the value that I had in myself but never knew.
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My relationship with my father was better than with my mom. From what he had told me, before I even spoke English he took me skiing and loved it which made my bond that much stronger with him. My mom had feelings of inadequacy, low self-esteem, dependency, an absence of acceptance and the ability to deal with me (Tibbits-Kleber and Howell). Despite my brother came at 4 ½ years old from Romania the bonding however were not as hard to overcome. I believe that due the age difference at arrival I was more prone to distrust. I didn’t want another mother to fail me.
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Ever since I could remember I was taken from my moms hands at 18 months old. I do not remember anything about my mother. I didn’t have a connection with her for all I knew, she was dead to me, she had done the one thing that made any child feel alone in the world. I didn’t fully realize what she had done to me until I was adopted and my adoptive parents told me that I was taken away. My mother believed that what she was doing, was the best thing for me. She wanted me to have the chance at a better life than what she had. My parents had told me that because my mom was sick and very poor, that she couldn’t provide a stable home for any of her kids. At that moment in my life I was filled with so much anger, hatred towards her that till this day I can’t forgive her. I had lost all trust in any adults that tried to care for me.
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When I came to Seattle in 2003 I didn’t trust my new mom, I had the idea that she would abandon me as well. I always thought that the reason my mother had surrendered me was because I was the problem. Little did I know it was because she simply just didn’t have the funding to look after me and that she was sick. I didn’t understand why someone would give up their child for alcohol and yes I knew she was sick, but still. Why put a kid who didn’t do anything wrong through all that pain that will endure further down their life. Looking back there was no way that I could come to the United States and automatically fit into an American family and culture.
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was a whole new experience for me. From living in an orphanage in a small village, I took my very first plane ride to the capital city, Moscow. My new dad gave me a set of headphones and let me listen to music on the plane. I got to stay in a hotel, wear American clothes and see a big city. It was a whole new world, it was a culture shock to the nth degree. Being part of a family, adjusting culturally, learning a new language, integrating into a new school, learning academics was new for me.
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Since I was seven years old I would be experiencing the virtues of Hope and Purpose, for the sake of being adopted I had to relearn everything that a baby would learn as they were growing up. My mother always had hope that one day she and I would have the bond that my father and I had and still have till this day. As Knowles puts it, hope is the perception of the world as an invitation to live (Knowles,1986). The means to open up, whether that is by being vulnerable, fearful etc. I would do everything in my power to stay away from this virtue of hope. I didn’t want to let this person that I barely know have a relationship with me. The desire to understand and make sense of a “damaged” child and provide care was intense for my parents (Hull). I had the commitment and resilience on not having to make the effort to know who my parents where or what the world had to offer. Resilience is the understanding of two things; elasticity and recovery (Whilst). As I have been growing over the years not just as a person, but also my beliefs in faith and relationships. My relationship over the past has dramatically taken a turn with my mother as with my father. I have become closer to my mom and fully understand and take into heart everything that she has done for me. I now realize that all she wanted was the best for me and to show me that I was worth saving. For that reason, it is because of her that I have come to fully forgive my biological mother. It is not easy to be a mom and especially to someone who was adopted.
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Before my brother and I came into my parents’ life, they had tried to have kids of their own. Being unable to have their own, they decided to go through the process of adoption. Frankie had been with my parents for approximately 2 ½ years when my parents felt that Frankie had bonded with them and vise versa, and it was time to expand the family. My mother has always told me that she didn’t want to raise an only child because she married one. My mom felt that it was important for a child to learn how to share and play with others. This began the adoption process of me. They decided to contact the same agency and look for either a brother or a sister for Frankie. Knowles’ (1986) virtue of commitment is exemplified in my parents’ adoption of Frankie and their second adoption, which was me. Frankie was a waiting child in Romania, abandoned at birth and living in a orphanage. He desperately needed a family who would love and nurture him and my parents answered that call. Once again my parents demonstrated the virtue of commitment when they answered the call to adopt me. Like Frankie, I was living in an orphanage (this time Russia not Romania). I too was waiting for a family that would love and nurture me.
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When my parents made the commitment to adopt Frankie, they told only family and close friends. While this was an exciting change to their lives, they were extremely apprehensive about the change this would bring to their lives. Therefore they decided to answer the call but keep the news fairly private. When my parents answered the call to my adoption, Frankie was already in first grade and my parents let the school and the school families know of their plan. As the time got closer for me to come to America the school families threw my parents a large baby shower where all of the first grade parents were in attendance. The point being is that my parents with Frankies adoption were much more selective and restrictive with sharing the news, but with me, they were more comfortable having gone through the process already that they shared the news more openly.
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My parents would be experiencing the virtue of purpose when they adopted me. Knowles (1986) describes this as the task for the sake of being active and on the move. Mom and Dad had felt that they had to constantly be on the go and take every action they needed to help me develop as a young lady. I could also put the virtue of commitment in this situation, because my parents were committed to teaching me the value of being part of the family. My parents had made sure that they knew that my brother and I were adopted and that we knew what adoption meant (Reinoso, 2012). Any time my brother or I had any questions, my parents answered as honestly and as openly as they could. They shared all information that they had access to and never shied away from the issue of adoption and what it meant to our family. My parents became fulfilled as individuals through adoption. Adoption was how they formed their family while we may not be blood related we have formed a bond that makes us a family. My brother and I grew up as siblings; typically, we loved and hated each other at the same time. We watched our for each other were outsiders were concerned, but suffered through the sibling rivalry of any other family.
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‘Adoption creates good parenting, because you say okay, I don’t know who you are, so I will let you be whoever you are and I will just sit back and wait and discover what that is and celebrate it with you’ (Daniluk & Hurtig-Mitchell, 2003, p 396). It helped the parents find their identity within the kid. Their purpose in life as a care take or in some cases as rescuers for adopted children.
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Being adopted has benefited both me and my parents. I have gained loving parents and a brother, they love me and look out for me, worship me, adore me. They have created a family unit that was otherwise was not possibly other than through adoption. It hasn’t always been easy, I know that at times I have tested their patience and vise versa. There were days I thought I would never fit in and i’m sure they thought the same way. I have learned that the mistakes i have made along the way, have a profound effect on who I am today. My parents’ love and guidance helped acclimate me to life in America.
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It hasn’t always been easy being a part of a family unit, and there have been times when I rebelled but at the end of the day I respect that my parents are my parents and anything they did or said was only for my best interest. There were many stories were international adoption has gone horribly wrong for various reasons but I know that in mine and my brothers cases my parents love us and have nurtured us and want us to be the best that we can be. We have been integrated into the American culture to take advantages of the opportunities that come our way.
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All stages of life are important as to what makes a person human. Everyone experiences the challenges of growing up and living in the real world. There are good times and hard times. We learn from everything we go through and continue to grow every day at all ages. Many traits in adulthood like responsibilities, wealth, and social status matter to most, but as a child, the only things that matter are what they can dream to achieve one day. Though our childhood is a small part of our life, it impacts adulthood in so many ways.
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Parents are there to guide their child every step of the way until they cannot anymore. There are benefits to both ends, with childhood there is no worry about the future because children have their parents to back them up. As an adult, they can make a decision and not have to worry about what anyone else says. With that, there are unfavorable factors to both sides. As a child, if one wants to make a decision it goes through parents which could lead to frustration with each other and losing the little independence they felt they had. As an adult, a decision can be hard because there are few people that one can ask opinions from, and the decision could lead to serious consequences.
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Identity is the fact of being who or what a person or thing is. During adulthood, one finds what their true identity is. It may take someone longer than others to understand what identity means. As a child, there are no worries about finding a true identity because there is no need for it. Children live the day to day life growing up, learning new things, and doing what they want. They are seen in relation to their parents; however, adults are identified by many things like work and choice of friends. There is a social status that people go into no matter how hard one denies it. Adulthood is based on opinions of each other which lead to a certain happiness that a child does not experience. Children do not have the pressure of worrying what other people think because they do what makes them happy. They do not have to conform to society’s rules to feel comfortable in the world like adults have to. A child has a free manor when it comes to actions and words. An irrational response from a child would be rejected as an adult. Children’s identity is not affected by how they respond to anything like adults. Anything an adult does affects how people see them especially if it is negative. Children live in a kind world whereas adults have to worry about how they respond and have a constant pressure to please others to be accepted.
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Thoughts and dreams, everyone has them no matter how big or small. Children and adults have that in common, though it may be in different context. As a child, dreams are for becoming and astronaut or president whereas for an adult, dreams are for a car or lots of money. Thoughts start from the beginning. Children have opinions and change as they grow from their experiences, adults are the same exact way. The difference is that children can dream and believe in a fantasy as adults cannot and could be viewed poorly. Children can believe in something that is entirely not there like Santa, the Tooth Fairy, and the Easter Bunny. Adults want their children to have that ability to dream about them and be excited just like they did when they were young. Adulthood gets to experience all of those feelings during the holidays by watching children feel the same way. There are no limits to a child’s thoughts, and dreams. As they reach adulthood they are faced with rejection and failures to which they learn from and unfortunately, find a realistic thought and dream with limits. As one grows into adulthood, those thoughts and dreams of becoming something incredible vanish.
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Growing from childhood to adulthood is a huge journey that everyone endures. The similarities and differences are vast. In childhood and adulthood, there are responsibilities. The difference between them is that children’s responsibilities are much less serious. Some of the responsibilities could be cleaning their room, receiving good grades, and waking up on time. As an adult, the responsibilities have serious consequences if they are not accomplished like paying bills, going to work, making sure everyone is taken care of. What is learned as a child will be chosen to be remembered as an adult. As childhood thoughts and dreams dissipate into time, growing from that will then shape them and give them their identity for the rest of life. The many traits that dictate the similarities and differences between childhood and adulthood give us an understanding of how and who a person is today.
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Discipline is not just physical punishment. It can also be described as “the use of guilt, insult, shame, lack of love, and emotional blackmail to dominate or subdue a child’s behavior” (Mohammed & Samak, 2017, p. 1731). Children are more likely to experience negative discipline in low income homes with uneducated parents. The purpose of this literature review is to examine how negative discipline effects cognitive and social development, as well as aggression, and the subsequent relationship with their parents. The results of this review found that children who are routinely disciplined will have a tense relationship with their parents and show more signs of anxiety and aggression.
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The effects of harsh discipline include aggression, non-compliance, externalizations, anxiety, and anti-sociality (Landsford, Deater-Deckard, Dodge, Bates, Pettit, 2004). To show these connections we will look at exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis, self-ratings, naturalistic observations, and correlational methods (Mohammed & Samak, 2017). The intent of this review is to examine the effect of harsh discipline on the child-parent relationship, determine how discipline shapes a child’s behavior, and to consider the three types of discipline styles and how they will influence a child’s behavior.
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Exploratory and confirmatory analyses demonstrate that harsh discipline is related to education and parental income. Parents from a higher socioeconomic status tend to be more permissive with their discipline, and lower income families display harsher means of discipline. Also, it is found that parental education determines the level of harshness, because those that use violence usually are not well-educated. Parents are quick to resort to harsh discipline because they do not want spoiled kids or they may not want to justify their child’s demand (i.e., whining), but this discipline is detrimental to the parent-child relationship. The child will not go to the parents for comfort because more than likely it is the parents who are causing the pain (Mohammed & Samak, 2017). In turn this will put a strain on the relationship. Parents may believe that harsh discipline will ensure that their kids will not be lazy and that the pain will help them control reactions, but what they do not realize is that children become more hostile and do the opposite of what is wanted when physical discipline is administered, according to Patterson’s Social Coercion Theory of 1982 (Mohammed & Samak, 2017). When a child does not find punishment normal, it then becomes useless and will lead to more unwanted behaviors (Landsford et al., 2011). On the other hand, in a Saudi Arabian study 67.5% of people reported being physically punished and 65% of those punished people justified it. Because physical discipline is customary in the Saudi Arabian culture, the people did not perceive it as wrong so their response was not negative (Mohammed & Samak, 2017). This highlights the Deater-Deckard and Dodge (1997) cultural normative context perspective which states that the culture and context of harsh discipline will determine the improvement of a child’s behavior. This is the case because the meaning of discipline changes a child’s behavior, so if a child believes their parents’ main goal in administering physical discipline is to help them grow, this alone can counteract harsh discipline’s negative outcomes (Landsford et al., 2004). In a study of “normativeness” there was an examination on the various discipline techniques and how a child perceived them. The results of the study showed that harsh discipline was a stronger moderator of a child’s behavior if the discipline was found customary. That is to say, normativeness has a direct relationship on child beahvior and that is a crucial point for parents to identity (Lansford et al., 2011) The parent-child relationship plays a key role in how a child responds to discipline.
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Three styles of discipline exist. Authoritarian discipline can be described as the more violent approach; as in beating, smacking, and spanking. The permissive approach is very hands off because parents do not want to make their child upset, so there is little to no boundaries set. In a longitudinal design carried out by Stice and Barrea (1995), it was found that there is a link between authoritarian and permissive discipline concerning substance abuse in teens (Lansford et al., 2011). Using a representative community sample it was also found that during the first 5 years of a child’s life, if they are exposed to physical discipline, they will show higher levels of reported behavior problems. Through physical discipline children learn that it is okay to deal with their problems in an aggressive way which in turn will make them more likely use aggression to deal with problems in the future (Lansford et al., 2004). Using children ages from 6-9, in a face-to-face interview, it was found that those kids were more likely to externalize behaviors due to harsh discipline. This agrees with the premise that 85% of studies show harsh discipline is not greatly linked with a child’s compliance (Mohammed & Samak, 2017). Studies have shown that routine discipline, including psychological discipline, will have a negative affect on a child’s cognitive and social development. Corporal punishment, expressing disappointment, and yelling produce child aggression while shaming and again expressed disappointment produce more child anxiety (Gershoff et al., 2010). The toxic stress of children stems from the negative experiences caused by harsh discipline. This is adverse because it can lead later in life to social, psychological, and developmental problems linked with criminal activity. The harsh punishment is also linked to lower empathy (Mohammed & Samak, 2017). Children whose parents routinely discipline them at a young age will show more signs of antisocial behavior (Lansford et al., 2009). This behavior is not only found through harsh discipline, but is also linked with mild discipline as well. In a meta-analysis study, 12 out of the 24 cases linked a connection between corporal punishment and antisocial behavior (Mohammed & Samak, 2017). A hypothesis can be made that prolonged use of moderate to mild physical discipline will increase the risk of antisocial behavior in adolescent ages (Lansford, 2009). In short, less physical discipline equates to less externalizing behaviors (Lansford et al., 2011). This can best be found in the last form of discipline, the authoritative method, and although the main point of this review is to examine how harsh discipline effects a child, it is still important to mention that not all forms of discipline are negative. The authoritative approach is the most ideal because it has to do with reasoning and verbal communication instead of violence or no punishment at all. This way of discipline will lead to less behavioral and psychological problems compared with the other two styles of discipline (Mohammed & Samak, 2017).
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In conclusion, the use of harsh discipline has many negative affects on a child. From aggression to anxiety, and even later use of abused substances, harsh discipline will have affected a child in some adverse way. Higher use of discipline is found most in homes of low income families and also of parents with little education. Parents who resort to physical or psychological discipline will not have a good relationship with their child because they will not find comfort in the person causing them harm. This will eventually lead to antisocial behaviors. The three forms of discipline: authoritarian, permissive, and authoritative, all have different affects on a child’s behavior. The authoritarian and the permissive styles both will end up causing psychological and behavioral problems, and the authoritarian style in particular will lead to more child aggression and non-compliance. This is the case because the child learns from the parent that it is ok to be physical when upset. The authoritative style of parenting is most effective because it tends to a child’s emotional needs while still setting limits and consistently enforcing boundaries. With this approach of parenting, kids were reported to have less internalizing and externalizing behavior problems. A limitation of this research when recording the correlation between physical discipline and externalizing problems was the fact that there was no discernment between physical discipline and physical abuse (Lansford et al., 2004). In the future, it would be more beneficial to have research geared more towards the child’s inputs and opinions because they have the best insight to what is happening within themselves.
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In the last 50 years, technology has exploded. It is no longer in a fixed location with limited capability and parental supervision. It is literally unlimited and extremely difficult to regulate. There used to be only one television at home was in the family room. Or when your family traveled in the car and everybody looked for license plates from all 50 states? Now, practically every vehicle has a DVD player and every home has several televisions Technoloy is everywhere now.
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In addition to its other effects, teen parenting is likely to hinder a child’s social and emotional wellbeing. “When a baby is born to a teenage mother, he is likely to have more difficulty acquiring cognitive and language skills as well as social and emotional skills like self-control and self-confidence’. Studies on early childhood development find that adolescent mothers (19 years of age and younger) are less likely than older mothers to engage in emotionally supportive and responsive parenting. They tend to have less knowledge about child development and effective parenting, and often misjudge their infant or toddler’s ability to adapt and learn. “We don’t need research to prove that, generally speaking, age brings maturity, self-assuredness, knowledge and experience”. By the age of 21, one has typically graduated from high school and is pursuing post-secondary education or participating in the workforce (or both). “Throughout our childhood and teenage years, we are acquiring life skills and problem-solving abilities that prepare us to confront and navigate challenges – both unforeseen and anticipated – in adulthood”. As a result, those who are beyond their teen years are more likely to make informed choices, use effective coping strategies, and think through important decisions. It’s not hard to see how these qualities lead to more effective parenting.
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“When a baby is born to an adolescent mother, there are several interrelated risk factors at play, meaning that the likelihood that one or more unfortunate outcomes will occur is stronger”. Adolescent parents commonly view quitting school as a solution to finding the time it takes to raise a baby. In majority of cases, adolescent parents are not married, and the discovery of pregnancy is unexpected. Too often, teen fathers abandon their parenting responsibilities due to fear and inability to adequately provide for their child, leaving the mother with even less support and financial assistance. “Unfortunately, teen pregnancy doesn’t only affect the individuals involved — its impact is far-reaching’. High rates of teen births can weaken a community’s economic conditions. Spending quality time together as a family can foster communication skills, family values and a sense of trust and bonding in young children. ‘Family time also encourages cooperation, sharing, collaboration and communication in older kids”. Young children are dependent on parents for their basic needs, but they also benefit from recreational time spent with Mom, Dad and siblings”. As children grow older, become more independent and form outside relationships with friends, getting everyone together for quality family time can be a challenge. “Learn the importance of spending time together as a family, as well as ways to encourage and strengthen the family bond as kids grow”. Children first begin to develop social skills at home, where they interact with family members and learn how to establish relationships with others. ‘Spending quality time together as a family can foster communication skills, family values and a sense of trust and bonding in young children”. Family time always encourages cooperation, sharing, collaboration and communication in older kids.
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The typical, American family dynamics that we thought we knew are suddenly becoming much more unfamiliar. With an increase in technology and the need for woman in the workforce, we have split apart from the ideals of a nuclear family and are now delving deeper and deeper into the era of what is becoming known as the post-modern family. No longer are people creating families out of love and compassion but rather for instant gratification, the benefits of having a partner, the expectancy of couples to raise children, and sometimes, by accident.
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The ever changing ideals of the typical American family dynamic has given rise to a new wave of ideas pertaining to our society, and how it is moving steadily towards the romanticized culture that is portrayed in Fahrenheit 451. Consequently, the change in ideals has given rise to slitting families along with differing gender roles and unreasonable expectations on couples to center their lives off of the ideas of past ideals. As we move further in society and become more independent on ourselves we move further and further from the past ideas of a nuclear family.
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The ideals of a nuclear family, two parents, two and one-half children, with one parent at home with the children, is quickly disappearing. We are now entering the era of the post-modern family, two parents working; single-parent families; adoptive families; remarried families; and so on. The post-modern family is more fluid, more flexible, and much more vulnerable to outside pressures. It portrays the fluidness of current families based off of individuals needs (Scherer). During the mid twentieth century, most people lived under the ideals of nuclear families. We operated under the assumptions that men should be the providers for the family and that women should act as stay at home mothers, protecting and raising the children. Then there were a series of events that skewed these ideas, such as World War II, the atomic bomb, the Holocaust, the Women’s Rights movement, and finally, the Civil Rights movement. All of these events and the consequences that occurred later changed the way we looked at the modern family nationwide (Scherer). World War II, for example, led us to doubt the notions that there would never be another major war, and that every day we should strive to achieve excellence in our nation. This led to a boom in labor opportunities that wound up in the hands of females throughout our country. This not only set a president for woman to work all across the nation, but also changed the woman’s role in a family setting. The evolution of these dynamics has morphed our values into the permeable family settings that we see today. The major value that progressed out of the nuclear family sentiments was that of togetherness. “It’s the notion that the family is the most important relationship in one’s life. Parents don’t divorce because family is more important than personal needs or happiness. In the same way, business comes after, not before the family” (Scherer). Obviously all families did not, and do not, live by these rules, but togetherness was the ideal.
Topic: family

These postmodern families have unforeseen negative consequences, but so does simply starting a family, which is a huge reason that society is shifting away from the nuclear family, which degraded woman and set a very high standard that cannot be achieved by the current family. Many examples are found in the current status of the normative family. An annual survey followed 17,000 people over thirteen years to build a picture of our home and family life, health, education and employment. It shows that when it comes to having a baby it’s all up to the woman and how she feels about her partner and their economic status (The Real Costs). Usually a woman’s financial stability and satisfaction with her partner are what propel her decision to start a family. Because of this, as well as the ideals of staying in college and the competition for jobs has, overall, increased the age of first-time parents. Men, on average range from thirty to thirty-four; women usually range from twenty-five to twenty-nine. On average, if one has been with their partner for more than four years, their chances of starting a family start to drop. Because of this we see a decline in the amount of steady relationships that transform into families. This is a huge factor as to why we are becoming more focused on self sufficiency rather than the good of the whole.
Topic: family

Most modern families also find it very difficult to find affordable and relient caretakers of their children while away earning the families income and almost one-quarter of families cannot find the time to take care of their children. So, instead of spending the money for daycare centers or babysitters, they use the child’s grandparents as a free alternative, on average for fifteen hours a week, a slightly higher rate for single parents who make use of grandparents for an average of twenty-four hours a week. About one-third of grandparents who babysit do so once or more a week, and around seven percent look after the children daily (Hax). Obviously, people feel too pressured to take on the role of parenting themselves so they throw their responsibilities onto people with more experience. This, however, can damage the relationships between the parents and children, creating a larger gap in the nuclear tradition, and modern family normalities.
Topic: family

Another factor in the economical side of the situation deals with childcare. Up to sixty-five percent of households that use childcare for children under thirteen usually pay for some, if not all, of that care. With all of these financial problems, one would think that the boom in our economy, as discussed before, would resolve any issues. However, before a couple had their first baby, more than ninety-one percent of men were working, compared with seventy-five percent of women (The Real Costs). This concludes that a man’s employment status has no impact on the probability of his partner getting pregnant, but his income does. Each additional $1000 in weekly earnings increases the probability of pregnancy by one point four percentage points (The Real Cost). This further proves that our current family status is not based off of love or a deep passion to start a life with someone, but instead based off of the needs of the individuals and whether or not the family is well off economically.
Topic: family

There seems to be a pattern between the economy and the patterns of family life. Some see the poor economy as the basis of declines in stable married, two-parent families; to poverty and economic insecurity; and subsequently, to poor schooling, job, and family outcomes for children (Lerman and Wilcox). From this perspective, the political focus should be on stabilizing the economy, through transfer programs, or indirectly, through increased job opportunities (Lerman and Wilcox). An alternative theory is that declines in the propensity to marry, along with shifts in the normality of acceptability of nonmarital births and fatherlessness, have led to major declines in stable two-parent families (Jayson). This, in turn, has exacerbated problems of poverty, increased inequality, and weakened opportunities for economic mobility (Lerman and Wilcox). According to this perspective, society must use approaches that encourage stable marriages and discourage nonmarital births which can prove effective in our economy and could possibly lead to new pathways to improve our family styles and normalities. Moreover, for some families, marriage can be a drag on their economic well-being, especially in cases where a partner is unemployed or when a marriage ends in divorce. This means that marriage and an intact, connected family life is not always associated with a better economic outcome.
Topic: family

In Fahrenheit 451, Montag and Mildred can be seen replicating an exaggerated example of the postmodern family. They are often separated, no love between them. This can be seen when Montag asks her if she remembers when and how they met. Mildred replies “no” and asked why he had asked. This proves the separation of families and how love is becoming a distant part of a families relationship. Their marriage is based of of their individual happiness and not caring for one another. It can also be seen in the scene where Mildred’s’ friends are talking about their relationships with their husbands. Instead of worrying for their husbands they simply send them off to war without care of what could happen. They raise children with many different men throughout their life and when a husband passes they turn the other cheek. Their selfish actions regarding family and the lack of care between them show the ideals of the postmodern family by exploiting the feelings in the relationships. They don’t spend time with each other and hardly remember what should be important experiences between them. Obviously society has not reached that level of regardless ness of family but we are certainly approaching it at an alarming rate.