Brenda Oliver
Children &Families in a Diverse Society
Professor Deborah Hibbs
March 27, 2017
As early childhood educators, we need to think about the types of families nthat our students come from. Today, it is not the norm for families to be mom, dad and child, families can be described many ways. We have single parent families, mom or dad, grandparents raising grandchildren, gay and lesbians raising children domestic and adopted from another country and multicultural families, some bilingual. Just to name a few. I have done some research on diverse family structures and its relevance to a child’s education. Some of the research I have found discussed the way children are affected by the different roles and how children’s education is affected. Plus, the teacher and parent communication, relationships and how the …show more content…
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