DJ or Donna Jo Tanner, from the show ‘Full House’, grew up in San, Francisco, California. She was the eldest sister of Stephanie and Michelle Tanner and they were all raised in a house with multiple father figures due to their mother’s death. At a very young age DJ and her sisters lost their mother in a car accident caused by a drunk driver and her father, Danny Tanner is left with three young daughters to raise. This is when Joey, Danny’s best friend moved in with Danny shortly after the death of Pam, to help raise D.J., and her sisters. Shortly after, Danny’s brother-in-law, Jesse first moves into the house with no experience in taking care of young children, but he starts to learn along the way. He becomes closer to all of his nieces over …show more content…
the course of the series. Jesse serves as a responsible adult when needed to help take care of the girls. All three of these men, especially Danny formed a disorganized attachment with DJ and her sisters which led Danny to develop an authoritative parenting style. Referring to parenting styles, Danny Tanner implemented the authoritative parenting style. In this one instance, DJ had slacked off with some homework after spending too much time at work or at the mall. Danny took a hard stance, telling DJ to leave her job and to not go back to the mall until she brought up her grades. Growing up with three dads they worked as a team, being more authoritative than authoritarian as they discuss issues with DJ in a clam and a lesson teaching manner. Danny being the authoritative parent, DJ is often irritated about the limits her father places on her, and she usually breaks these limits by rebelling against him but in the end, she learns her lesson. Learning to cope with growing up in a household with the multiple father figures, DJ soon develops a close relationship which leads to a disorganized attachment at times, as Danny disciplines her and the other girls with the authoritative parenting style. Journal #1 The purpose of this study was to develop a model based theory explain the sex of a parent, income status, role strain and their parental control behaviors on single mothers and single fathers. They were exploring the negative effect this has on the family, the single parent and the children. The measures being included in this study was that becoming a single parent can involve considerable role strain. When a father assumes primary custody, his roles expand as he takes on full responsibility for child care and household maintenance. Now that there is only one sole provider for the household all the responsibilities lie on one parent. This study has researched that fathers generally seem to cope more effectively with the transition to single parenthood. There is evidence that single fathers become less emotional and more pragmatic than single mothers in the attention they give to their children. Single fathers provide a healthy and supportive atmosphere for childrearing, and they have an easier time than single mothers with discipline. Results of a path analysis revealed that the higher economic strain of custodial mothers contributed to impaired role-coping strategies and loss of parental control, which ultimately interfered with parenting. This article also talks about issues of distress, coping, and control imply that single parenting influences parenting quality through the ‘‘stress process’’ (Pearlin, Lieberman, Menaghan, & Mullan, 1981). In addition, researchers have demonstrated that stressed parents use fewer effective parenting practices and more ineffective practices than non-stressed parents. These findings explain why low income has a pervasive negative effect on family functioning. Implications for family practice and policy are discussed. Relating these results back to my thesis statement I would say that research has stated that being a single parent is hard but easy for fathers more than mothers. The results showed a proposed model that was acceptable as indicated by the goodness-of-fit statistics. All of the influence of sex of parent on parenting was indirect through economic strain, the ability of parents to cope with roles, and through parental control of the child’s behavior. The effect of economic strain on parenting also was indirect through its influence on coping with roles and parental control. Coping with roles had both a direct effect and an indirect effect on parenting through parental control. Parental control directly influenced parenting. This journal article proves my thesis to be correct as Danny does cope with discipline in an authoritative way along with emerging a disorganized attachment with DJ. Journal #2 This study focuses on that portion of the parenting role associated with responsibility for the child's well-being and that parent-child relationship bond. This specific article focused a lot of attention on gender-typed parental behavior, such has just living with a mother or just living with a father, and the different behaviors children would have (S. Ambert ,1982) reports that single fathers actually have better- behaved children and more satisfactory lives than do single mothers. Other research has stated that single fathers with no mother figure in the household have neither the motivation or the skill to provide primary care for children that the mother has the capabilities of. Hence, it is harder for children to get attached to their father and may act out or not have that parent-child relationship/ attachment component. Transforming the father into the primary caretaker role and the continuing expectations by society that children need to be nurtured will produce male parenting behaviors nearly indistinguishable from female behavior in the same single-parent context. The children were observed in regard to those who experience multiple transitions in family structure may face worse developmental outcomes than children raised in stable two-parent families and perhaps even children raised in stable, single-parent families. They also looked after concerns about children, by the names of three scales. The first two scales addressed concerns related to parental employment the third skill parental perception of the child’s behavior. The research also stated that children’s behavior has direct and immediate implications for parents’ quality-of-life. Children who display more disruptive, withdrawn, or otherwise troublesome behavior, tend to make daily life more difficult on the single parent. My thesis focuses around the disorganized attachment and authoritarian parting styles method. With this research, family transitions have on child well-being and whether the effects of parental separation are primarily short-term or whether it also has more persistent and enduring consequences for the child. The results have shown that it may be that mothers feel more secure and accepted as single parents and then do fathers and are therefore more willing to report problem behavior. Or perhaps the disciplinary role of the fathers has traditionally filled in nuclear families, may help their children avoid at least one of the problems measured, for example school discipline. For Danny, he experiences ups and downs with DJ and implements his lesson to always apologize and admit your faults, along with some hardships, Danny and DJ struggle when it comes to their differences with discipline. Relating the research to character/ theme of development In the show ‘Full House’, Danny is left providing for his three daughters along with Jesse and Joey, his brother in-law and best friend. The research I have found in the first article talks about role strain that single parenting has on parents, in this case there are multiple father figures. The article also states that fathers cope effectively, rather than mothers who give the children discipline. Danny taught the girls right from wrong and they have learned from their mistakes. When Danny’s wife passed away, his roles expanded as he took on full responsibility for the girls and household maintenance. DJ who was the eldest daughter, helped a lot around the house and helped to take care of her younger sisters as well while Danny was at work. According to the research I’ve found that a child's well-being examines the relationship of employed parents' concerns about their children to parents' own well-being and orientation to work. Through my research, I’ve found evidence that supports the domain of parenting styles and parent relationships. DJ didn’t get to experience much of growing up with a mother figure in the house and most of the times children that experience divorce or live in a household with a single parent have drawbacks in their development. The research I’ve found supports my thesis statement because the articles have stated that single fathers with no mother figure in the household have neither the motivation or the skill to provide primary care for children that the mother has the capabilities of. DJ then develops a disorganized attachment with her father as he becomes more authoritative because he doesn’t have the skill to focus his attention on her which makes her act out. Next steps in characters development The theme of my paper is the authoritative parenting style Danny develops and a disorganized attachment with DJ.
In the show “Full House” the girls were raised with multiple father figures instead of the ordinary nuclear family. DJ has learned a lot growing up with three fathers and because of this type of parenting in the household, it can affect the girl’s development in the future. Both positive and negative ways, positively because she will learn independently and learn to cope with situations effectively because that’s how their father taught her. Negative because of just growing up with father figures in their home, they didn’t have that mom role model around which can affect their development in a way. Also, stated earlier in my research, single parents have more stress and that stress can be passed onto the child in the long-term. Research states that girls who are raised in a single parent home are three times as likely to become drug addicts, but the research was proven wrong. Recently the show ‘Full House’ renewed itself into a modern series, where the girls were shown as adults, grown up living their own lives. I noticed that DJ with her kids, she implemented the same parenting technique that her father had with her when she was a little girl. She is a little bit like Danny Tanner as a dad. She's very organized and orderly as a single mom due to her husband’s passing, so she has to be disciplined with three kids, just like her father was. DJ took a positive direction in her development because when she was growing up as a child her father was left taking on both roles with the death of his wife and DJ’s mother. As we see DJ grown up with her own kids, being a single mother she has to take on both roles. This left a positive impact on DJ to be the mother to her children as her father was to her and her
sisters. In conclusion, DJ or Donna Jo Tanner, from the show ‘Full House’ and her father Danny established a disorganized attachment which lead to the authoritative parenting style. In the end, with my research I’ve found that being a single-parent incorporates being the sole-provider of the household including the children’s needs. It has been proven that fathers are more effective when it comes to discipline then mothers are. Danny set rules and constructed disciplinary methods. He knows what kind of bond to have with his kids to make sure they know right and wrong and learn from their mistakes. With DJ, she has a hard time following Danny’s rules and as she gets older she starts to learn from her mistakes and even implement the same parenting style with her children. More, over learning to cope with growing up in a household with the multiple father figures, DJ soon develops a close relationship with her father which leads to a disorganized attachment at times, as Danny disciplines her with the authoritative parenting style.
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Today, single parenting seems to be a prevalent issue. Ben’s mother underwent so many struggles in life. She was a foster child and got married when she was thirteen years old and found out that her husband was cheating on her and divorced him. She was illiterate and at times called herself dumb, she feared that her two children would turn out like her. As a single mom, she was the main driving force in her sons’ life. She even became strict because she was serious about her sons’ education. She wanted them to achieve what she couldn’t when she was younger. She was an authoritative parent as she gave them reading assignments to complete and allowed them to study their time tables. Because of her parenting style and her role as a single mother Ben excelled in school and defied the odds. Natalie C. Ernst in her article “The Psychology of Parenting styles” stated that “Authoritative parents are classified as the healthiest parenting style…they are demanding and responsive, assertive but not intrusive or restrictive…It also has an influence on psychological maturity while often helps children perform better in
...istics, 1999). McBride, Brent A., Sara K., Sullivan, and Ho-Ho (2005) reported about the achievement levels in a adolescent who grows up with a father, “A study of 1330 children from the PSID showed that fathers who are involved on a personal level with their child schooling increases the likelihood of their child's achievement. When fathers assume a positive role in their child's education, students feel a positive impact.” (p. 201-216). Children who do not grow up in a two parent homes, are more likely to fail and repeat a grade in school. It is also important to note that children who grow up in single parent families are less likely to have parents involved with the school, 62% of children with two parent homes have parents that are involved in school, while children from single parent homes have half of them involved in school (Nord, Winquist, West, 2001).
Single Parent Struggle For many years, children growing up in a single parent family have been viewed as different. Being raised by only one parent seems impossible to many yet over the decades it has become more prevalent. In today’s society many children have grown up to become emotionally stable and successful whether they had one or two parents to show them the rocky path that life bestows upon all human beings. The problem lies in the difference of children raised by single parents versus children raised by both a mother and a father.