Responsibilities of Parenting

The stage of parenthood in which parents begin to think about themselves as parents.

• Abstinence

• Emotional Maturity

• Image-Making

• Paternity

A person's view of himself or herself as a male or female.

• Abstinence

• Confidential

• Open

• Sexuality

Chemicals in the body that control the changes that make adolescents mature sexually.

• Emotional Maturity

• Hormones

• Paternity

• Interdependent

Being responsible enough to consistently put someone else's needs before one's own,

• Hormones

• Emotional Maturity

• Authority

• STD or STI

A disease that is spread from one person to another by sexual contact.Authority

• STD or STI

• Financial Stability

• Sexuality

Avoiding sexual activity.

• Abstinence

• Emotional Maturity

• Paternity

• Interdependent

Legally identifying the biological father of a child.

• Emotional Maturity

• Interdependent

• Paternity

• Sexuality

Type of adoption in which birth parents and adoptive parents know something about each other.

• Authority

• Emotional Maturity

• Open

• Interdependent

Why is learning about child development important for effective caregiving?

• So you can have reasonable expectations.

• So you will always know what to do.

• Everyone will be a parent someday - so it is best to be prepared.

• All of the above.

Sexually transmitted diseases are  ______.

• a problem for 1 in 5 people in the United States

• primarily a risk for pregnant women.

• all treatable, but not curable.

• a new problem in society.