FRCD 3023: Child and Parent inSocial Context

Course Objective

• Identify and discuss changing demographic, social, and economic trends affecting families and children
• Identify and discuss desirable outcomes of parent-child socialization in a changing society
• Identify and discuss significant parenting, childcare, school, work, media, and community issues as they apply to development needs of children from infancy through adolescence.
• Develop an understanding of parenting in single parent and remarried families
• Develop an understanding of parenting the exceptional child
• Develop an understanding of various myths regarding parenting
• Conduct and analyze an interview with a family from a culture or ethnic group other than the student's