LSPSY 350 Psychology of Parenthood

6 Credits

This study of psychology and parenthood includes such topics as: biological and evolutionary consideration; psychological experience of pregnancy and childbirth; parental roles of the mothering person and the fathering person; and the psychological influences of parents on children and children on parents. The emotional needs of parents and children, parental responsibilities and satisfactions, the family as a system, intergenerational considerations (e.g., grandparents), the one-parent family, and marriage without children are also studied.

Prerequisite(s): LSPSY 200 .

Open to Liberal Studies Degree students only.