Sentences with phrase «toward child rearing»

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And yet, if same - sex marriage is to be truly equal to natural marriage in the eyes of society and the law, then all the rights and privileges of marriage — including those involving the procreation and rearing of children — must in principle belong to both kinds of marriage, irrespective of the motives impelling a couple toward marriage or whether, once married, they exercise these rights and privileges.

Exploring attitudes toward children, and coming to a beginning plan of how they should be reared.

Some may be somewhat in limbo because of differing opinions as to what is right, for example, abortion which is regarded by some as horribly immoral and by others as a legitimate step in some cases toward better family life with better rearing of those children who are born, and toward a better - fed world.

Pro-choice activists, she observed, were almost obsessed with planning for their children, trying to give them «maximum parental guidance and every possible advantage,» while parents active in the antiabortion movement «tend to be laissez - faire individualists in their attitude» toward child - rearing.

Convertible seats are the only type of seats that are placed in different positions depending on a child's age: They face toward the rear until a baby is ready to face forward, when they can be turned around and «converted» to a forward - facing seat.

By tradition, students of socialization have directed their primary energies toward understanding processes whereby parents» child - rearing strategies and behaviours influence children's development.

In addition, the car seat sits inside the stroller rear facing toward the parent, giving comfort and security - not to mention bonding - with your child.

Yet evolutionary theorists predict that male desire should remain perpetually high in order for them to produce many offspring, while female desire should decrease as their attention turns, historically, toward child - rearing.

Scales used to assess inconsistent maternal enforcement of rules, loud arguments between the parents, low maternal educational aspirations for the child, maternal possessiveness, maternal use of guilt to control the child, maternal anger toward the child, parental cigarette smoking, parental supervision of the child, paternal assistance to the child's mother, paternal role fulfillment, and maternal verbal abuse were obtained from the DPI and instruments assessing maternal child - rearing attitudes and behaviors that were administered during the maternal interviews.28 - 31 Measures of maternal punishment, parental affection toward the child, parental time spent with the child, and poor parental communication with the child were administered during the maternal and offspring interviews using scales assessing parental warmth, parent - child communication, and parental support and availability.28, 29,31 Data regarding parental home maintenance and maternal behavior during the interview were provided by interviewer observations.

Steinberg et al. (1994; Lamborn, Mounts, Steinberg, & Dornbusch, 1991) found significant correlations between adolescents» descriptions of their parents» child - rearing methods and replies by the same adolescents to questions about their own behaviors and attitudes.3 Evidence that such within - informant correlations can be misleading was provided by Pike, Reiss, Hetherington, and Plomin (1996), who asked both parents and adolescents to report on the parent's negative behavior toward the adolescent and on the adolescent's antisocial behavior.

Studies have shown that children who inherit predispositions toward criminal behavior (Cloninger et al., 1982; Mednick et al., 1987), schizophrenia (Tienari et al., 1994), or alcoholism (Cloninger et al., 1982; McGue, 1999) are more likely to fall prey to these risks if they are reared in adverse circumstances.

Traditional and non-traditional viewpoints on parenting may yield very different styles of child rearing, attitudes toward sex, and your approaches to solving problems, for example.

But now there is a growing movement in the U.S. toward «attachment parenting», a theory of child - rearing centered around responsiveness to children's needs and close physical contact between baby and mother.

Differences in opinion on lifestyle issues, child - rearing, education, morals, as well as past resentments toward an ex can all get in the way of the cooperation effort.

By tradition, students of socialization have directed their primary energies toward understanding processes whereby parents» child - rearing strategies and behaviours influence children's development.

Child - rearing attitudes are cognitions that predispose an individual to act either positively or negatively toward a cChild - rearing attitudes are cognitions that predispose an individual to act either positively or negatively toward a childchild.

Hence, speculatively, perhaps certain proximal correlates of rearing in advantaged socioeconomic environments (e.g. more frequent and consistent exposure to supportive parenting practices and parent — child interactions; more frequent home and school exposures to adult modeling of adaptive decision - making) favorably influence — and in their absence, impede — the assembly and long - term functionality of brain systems supporting top - down or regulatory control functions that, in turn, bias individuals toward less impulsive decision - making (Hackman and Farah, 2009; Hackman et al.