Watch and learn! Carefully selected media links and video chapter summaries by Laura Levine and Joyce Munsch will help bring key concepts and theories to life, preparing you for your studies and exams. 

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Chapter Video

• 13.1 - Single Parents
  This video discusses the challenges of single parenting.

• 13.2 - Children and Divorce
  ABC news produced this segment on children and the impact of divorce.

• 13.3 - Helping Children Cope with Divorce
  A psychologist offers advice to parents on how they can help their children cope with the parents' divorce by controlling their animosity toward each other.

• 13.4 - Grandparents Raising Grandchildren
  A pair of grandparents who are in their 60s talk about how being responsible for their 3 year old grandson has changed their lives.

• 13.5 - Gay and Lesbian Parents
  A gay couple discusses their adoption of a pair of young sisters and the legal challenges they faced.

• 13.6 - Open Adoption
  In an open adoption, the birth parents and adoptive parents continue a relationship following the adoption and as the child grows up.

• 13.7 - Family Mealtime
  Discussion of the benefits that come families sharing meals together.

• 13.8 - Changing Role of Fathers
  The role of fathers in parenting has changed dramatically in the past few decades.

• 13.9 - Parenting Style
  Headline Health discusses the different parenting styles and what they could mean for children.

• 13.10 - Sibling Relationships
  This video discusses the impact of the sibling relationship, and what we learn from it.

• 13.11 - Children with No Siblings
  This video discusses the phenomenon of only children and how the development of only children in school might be different from that of children with siblings.

Video Links

• The Changing American Family
  This panel discussion includes such topics as the importance of stability for children, greater involvement of fathers, family building programs, support for single parents, gay marriage and incarcerated fathers.

• That's a Family!
  Children themselves describe the wide variety of family forms that they live in.

• A Day in the Life of a Single Parent
  Without words, this video shows how a single mother copes with taking care of a home and two children, while holding a job.

• Children of Divorce
  This video shows some of the mistakes that divorcing parents make that make the process more difficult for their children.

• Noncustodial Parents
  This video, prepared by the New York City Office of Child Support Enforcement, describes the rights and responsibilities of noncustodial parents.

• Gay or Lesbian Parents
  Dr. Judith Stacey discusses research on the diversity of family forms, including gay and lesbian families.

• Foster Care
  Children who are living in foster care talk about their exeriences in the system.

• Family Mealtime
  Christine Carter from UC Berkeley discusses the importance of family dinnertime on ABC's afternoon talk show "The View From the Bay".

• Work and Family
  The Third International Conference of Work and Family on the theme of "Harmonizing Work, Family and Personal Life in Times of Crisis"

• Working Mothers
  Michelle Obama Shares Her Own Working Mother Story (6:45)

• Positive Discipline
  A 2-part interview with Joan Durrant in which she talks about what positive discipline is.

• Stop Spanking
  A parenting expert reviews the research on the negative consequences of spanking, and recommends positive alternatives.

• Parenting Styles in Minority Families
  This program focuses on the diversity of families in the United States. Dr. Ana Mari Cauce discusses the nature of African- and Mexican-American parenting styles. (58:30)

• Parenting Styles in Minority Families 2
  Dr. Rand Conger discusses how socioeconomic status, neighborhoods, and marital relationships affect parenting in African- and Mexican-American families. (59:30)

• Sibling Relationships
  The causes of sibling rivalry and also the important ways sibling relationships become a model for other social relationships.

• Nonshared Environments
  This lecture recorded at Yale University talks about what contributes to our differences. Beginning at 36:32 in the lecture, the nonshared environment is discussed.

Audio Links

• What Makes a Family?
  This NPR show attempts to answer the question: What makes a family?

• Challenges for Single Parents
  Experts describe the challenges for single parent households and offer some possible solutions for improving the lives in these families. (30:18)

• Three Years After a Divorce
  In his own words, a 12 year old boy describes how he experienced his parents divorce and how he has coped.

• Stepfamilies
  The editor of Stepmom magazine discusses the challenges of creating a step- or blended families. (32:54).

• Boomerang Kids
  This NPR episode talks about multigenerational families and boomerang kids, reflecting one of the ways that American families are changing.

• International Adoptions
  A panel discusses the special challenges of an international adoption.

• Transactional Model of Parenting
  Bad behavior by a child does not necessarily means that parents have done a bad job because we need to consider the child's characteristics as well.

• The Sibling Effect
  A new book discusses the effect of having (or not having siblings) as a child grows up.