Week 2 Discussion Question 2
Choose either question 1 or 2 and post an initial 200 word response to your selected question by Day 4 (Thursday) and respond to other students' postings in the question you did not answer by Day 6 (Saturday). Your response post must add something new to the discussion. Title your posts and include the name of the author of the reading you are addressing.
Your posts must be in accordance with theUniversity’s Threaded Discussion Guidelines.
Q1. Pew Research Center, May 2020, “As Millennials Near 40, They’re Approaching Family Life Differently Than Previous Generations”
The May 2020Pew Research Center Study on American Families published its report, “As Millennials Near 40, They’re Approaching Family Life Differently Than Previous Generations.” This study shows that Millennials are less likely to live with a family of their own than previous generations were at the same stage of life.
Based on this reading, complete the following:
Describe how Millennials are forming families today.
Begin by identifying the broad changes that have occurred in patterns of cohabitation, interracial marriage, marriage, and child-bearing.
Q2. Findings from Family Process Studies about What’s Good for Children
Cowan and Cowan attempt to reframe the debate about what’s good for children. The authors suggest that it is how well parents work together to care for their kids that is important, not whether the parents are married or not. After reviewing the literature on "what's good for children" based on family structure (e.g., increased rates of single parenthood, divorce) and at demographic trends (e.g., declines in marriage rates and birth rates) and the debates about "family values," they offer their framework for studying what's good for children, a family process model.
Based on this reading, complete the following:
Identify the five kinds of risk or protective factors that affect children's development.
Using examples for the risk and protective factors that you identified, summarize the authors' explanation of why the family process model provides the best data for understanding family difficulties and how to remediate them.