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01.08: The World of Parenting
Module One: Text Questions

Review Questions
1. What are the differences between being a biological parent, an adoptive parent, and a foster parent? A parent is not somebody who simply brings a child into the world, but rather a person who sacrifices time and resources, over a period of years, to make sure that the child is nurtured, disciplined, educated, and otherwise prepared to successfully as an adult. When a parent adopts a child, she takes on the full responsibility of raising that child. Children who are in need of parental care are assigned to foster parents by the state. The foster parent legally assumes all responsibilities toward the child for a limited time (although foster parents are usually financially compensated by the government for child-rearing expenses.
2. What financial needs are parents obligated to provide and which are optional? Number only includes the direct costs of raising a child, such as food, shelter, clothing, healthcare, education, etc. It fails to account for many of the indirect costs of raising a child.
3. What other needs might a child have that a parent is expected to provide? ). food, shelter, clothing, healthcare, education,
4. What are the qualities of a nurturing parent? The parents have to care for their needs and have a healthy level of self-respect, so they can help develop self-esteem in the kids.

Critical Thinking Questions
1. What qualities make a person a good parent? A bad parent? Good parents take of their kids and not leave them. Bad parents leave the kids behind and doesn’t think twice about them.
2. Which parental responsibilities do you think would be the most challenging? Why? Financial because they might have one parent take take care of the kids and maybe that person is a caregiver and can’t afford to send to kids to a better school or get them an IPad or something of the sort.
3. Which parental responsibilities do you think would be the most interesting to you? Why? Everything would be because you got to take care of the kid and it differ than an animal or sibling.
4. What are some things that people can do to prepare for parenthood? Read about it, ask some ?s, search it on line.