Title: Examine parental roles, rights, and responsibilities.
Course: GRADS: Family Focus (19905-36) > Section: Adjusting to Parenthood

Examination should include

- the importance of parents as role models
- rights of parents to raise children according to their own beliefs, subject to laws related to abuse and endangerment
- effect of parents’ involvement in a child’s education and health
- rights of nonresident fathers
- responsibilities of parents for emotional, cognitive, physical, moral, spiritual, social, and economic support
- healthy and safe home environment.

Process/Skill Questions

Thinking

- How does caring for one’s child manifest itself?
- Does being a role model for your child ever end?
- Do you classify most parenting responsibilities as part of the mother’s role or the father’s role?

Communication

- What do the parenting roles you have experienced mean to you as a parent?
- What behaviors are important to model?

Leadership

- What are the consequences of neglectful parenting for the child? The family? The community?
- What are the consequences of abusive parenting for the child,  the family, and the community?
- What skills will help you be a caring and nurturing parent?

Management

- How does your home environment influence your parenting style?