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Intimate Relationships, Marriages, and Families Cover Image
Intimate Relationships, Marriages, and Families, 5/e
Mary K. DeGenova
Philip F. Rice

Family Backgrounds and How They Influence Us

Short Answer

Please answer all questions



1

If children are brought up in family situations where their parents constantly criticize them and show disapproval of them, how will their later marital relationships likely be affected? List some possible effects.
2

Discuss how parental role models can influence children's life goals and work patterns.
3

Select one of the seven patterns of communication that exist in families and discuss why you believe this one is so important (to have or to change).
4

Discuss the three categories of gender-role learning that can take place in the family.