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What Factors Account for the Increase in the Percentage of African

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What factors account for the increase in the percentage of African American families that are headed by females?


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Baumrind's Parenting Styles

A model that classifies parental behaviors into three main types: authoritarian, permissive, and authoritative, based on the level of responsiveness and demandingness.

Power Assertion

A disciplinary tactic employed by parents or caregivers involving the use of authority, threats, or physical force to enforce child compliance.

Authoritarian

describes a leadership or governing style characterized by strict obedience to authority at the expense of personal freedom.

Language Acquisition Device (LAD)

A hypothetical module of the human mind posited to account for children's innate predisposition for language acquisition.

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