Changing Family Forms: The Implications for Children’s Development

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8 - Changing Family Forms: The Implications for Children’s Development

from Part III - Social, Legal, and Technological Change: Impact on Children

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 July 2019

Ross D. Parke

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Ross D. Parke: Affiliation:
University of California, Riverside
Glen H. Elder, Jr.: Affiliation:
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

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The proliferation of a wide variety of family forms has challenged the centrality and necessity of the traditional nuclear family as a context for successful socialization. Views of the importance of the gender of parents, sexual orientation of parents, biological relatedness of family members, and new routes to parenthood are challenged. Increases in divorce, the rise in the number of stepfamilies, cohabitating couples, single parents, and adoption raise further questions about the links between both the number of parents and the biological ties among family members. The gender, sexual orientation, or biological relatedness of the agent of delivery of the critical ingredients for socialization (i.e., stimulation, nurturance ,guidance, limit setting) or the family form in which these processes are enacted are less important than the processes themselves. Second, an interdependent model of family functioning is proposed, which reflects the increasing degree of outsourcing of tasks and responsibilities. To maximize assistance available to a full range of family forms, it is critical that policy makers recognize the diversity of family forms and develop suitable policies.

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changing family forms same sex parents new reproductive technologies social policy outsourcing of family tasks

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Information: Children in Changing Worlds
Sociocultural and Temporal Perspectives
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108264846.008 [Opens in a new window]
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