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The most important forms of social behaviour necessary for successful social adjustment appear and begin to develop at this time. In the early years of childhood, these forms are not developed well enough to enable the child to get along successfully with others at all times. However, this is a crucial stage in development because it is at this time ...
Attitudes toward children and parenthood are usually formed early in life, though they may crystalize when the individual knows that he or she will soon become a parent.
Many factors influence the formation of attitudes toward children. First, young people’s earlier experiences with children have a marked effect on how they feel about them in general and about their own ...
Many Factors Influence Happiness
At every period in the life span, happiness is influenced by a number of factors. This is in part responsible for the variation in happiness at different ages and also for the fact, discussed above, that happiness at one age does not necessarily guarantee happiness at other ages. The most common and important of the factors ...
The male climacteric is very different from the menopause. It comes later, usually during the sixties or seventies, and progresses at a very slow rate. With the general aging of the entire body comes a very gradual weakening of the male sexual and reproductive powers. It is hard to determine exactly when hormonal imbalance begins in men because there is ...
General bodily and emotional changes occur at the time of the menopause but are not necessarily caused by it or related to it. Cessation of menstruation is therefore only one aspect of the menopause.
The average age for cessation of the menstrual flow is around forty-nine years, though this varies widely among women, depending on hereditary endowment, general health conditions ...
Like those of younger children, some of the misdemeanors of older children are due to ignorance of what is expected of them or to a misunderstanding of the rules. Some are the result of children’s testing of authority and their attempts to assert their independence. Most, however, are the result of children’s conformity to gang misbehaviour. To maintain their position ...
The ninth significant fact about development is that there are social expectations for every stage of development. Every cultural group expects its members to master certain essential skills and acquire certain approved patterns of behaviour at various ages during the life span. Havighurst has labelled them developmental tasks. According to him, a developmental task is “a task which arises at ...
Many parents, especially mothers, feel that children of multiple birth should be dressed alike and share the same friends and engage in the same play activities. This is particularly true when the children are of the same sex. Being subjected to pressures to be alike and being denied opportunities to develop their individualities leaves its mark on their personalities and ...
The fourth thing that happens at the time of conception is the establishment of the new child’s ordinal position among siblings. While this may change within a year or two after birth, the child’s ordinal position remains fairly static from then on. For example, a second-born child may be the “baby of the family” or hold a last-born ordinal position ...
At no other time during the life span are there more serious hazards to development – or hazards of a more serious nature – than during the relatively short period before birth. These may be physical or psychological. Physical hazards have received more scientific attention because they are more easily recognized.
However, psychological hazards are sometimes as serious as physical ...
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