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A a man and a woman both have brown eyes, but their first child has blue eyes. Use uppercase E for dominant brown eyes; lowercase e for recessive blue eyes. (Hint: The fact that the child has blue eyes (recessive) indicates that both parents had alleles for blue eyes.)
Second child:
(a) What are the chances that their second child will have blue eyes?
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Question 2) Compared with Western parents, Chinese parents describe their parenting as more controlling, or authoritarian. They are more directive in teaching and scheduling their children's time as a way of fostering self-control and high achievement. And they may appear less warm than Western parents because they believe that frequent praise leads to self-satisfied and poorly motivated children. However, when Chinese parents carry the authoritarian style to the point of harsh, excessive control, their children display the same negative outcomes seen in Western children. When effective, the Chinese child-rearing style combines high control with warmth.
In Hispanic and Asian Pacific Island families, an authoritarian insistence on respect for parental authority is, in a similar fashion, paired with high parental warmth. Hispanic fathers are typically warm and sensitive, and spend much time with their children. Many low-SES African-American parents expect immediate obedience and regard strictness as fostering self-control and a watchful attitude in risky surroundings. African-American parents who use these strategies tend to have more cognitively and socially competent children. This parenting style may include physical punishment-but in this cultural context, physical punishment is used sparingly and is combined with warmth and reasoning.
In all of these examples, aspects of an authoritaRIAN style are combined with the warm and responsiveness associated with an authoritaTIVE parenting style. Although cultural variations do exist, the authoritative style, with its combination of warmth and involvement, appropriate autonomy granting, and rational control, appears to be part of effective parenting across cultures.
(1) In your opinion, which "blend" of authoritative parenting is the most effective? Support your views with information from you readings, and please refer to the Syllabus for proper citation format.
(2) Is the concept of parenting styles useful for understanding effective parenting across cultures? Provide explanations for your position by citing information you have learned from the textbook or other published sources
(3) How much influence does the culture play in the stereotypes we have of children from different cultures? Please be specific, and feel free to cite examples from your daily observations