By the end of this chapter, students should be able to:
- Describe the three most important characteristics of good parents.
- Be familiar with the three most common attachment styles and their affects on adolescent behavior.
- Contrast behavioral and emotional autonomy.
- Describe the four major parenting styles.
- Know the effects on adolescents of having been raised by parents of each of the four types from #4.
- Compare the differences in philosophical outlook exhibited by parents and their adolescent children.
- Be aware of the five factors that are most often the focus of intra-familial conflict.
- Be able to describe the important variables that affect conflict in the family.
- Understand the nature of adolescent-sibling relationships.
- Summarize the benefits that adolescents derive from having relationships with their grandparents.
- Contrast the four types of child abuse.
