Benjamin's Parents Expect Him to Tell Them Everything

question 42

Multiple Choice

Benjamin's parents expect him to tell them everything. However, now that he's 13 years old, he feels entitled to keep secrets from them. This is an example of an adolescent-parent disagreement over which kind of issue?

• A) parental control
• B) emotional distress
• C) compromise
• D) familism

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Definitions:

Stranger Wariness

A developmental stage in infants and young children where they start to show apprehension or fear towards unfamiliar people.

Excessively

Doing or having something in a way that is beyond what is normal, necessary, or reasonable; overly or to an undue degree.

Percent

A mathematical term used to describe a portion of 100, denoting a fraction of a whole in terms of equal parts per hundred.

Social Smile

A smile evoked by a human face, normally first evident in infants about 6 weeks after birth.