PARENTAL ROLE IN DEVELOPMENT - Creighton University：在发展-克瑞顿大学的父母的角色.docVIP

Running head: PARENTAL ROLE IN DEVELOPMENT Parental Influence on the Development of Children Kelsey Sharpe Creighton University Abstract This paper examines the role the environment plays in the development of children in the United States. The paper specifically focuses on the influence parents have on the development of their children whether they are biological, adoptive, or guardian parents. In terms of the parental role in development, the paper examines how parents influence the emotional, moral, and social development of their children. Parental Influence on the Development of Children At conception, the human egg and sperm meet and fuse into a zygote, the one cell beginning of human life. Immediately after conception, the zygote begins the infinite amount of mitotic divisions to produce an embryo, fetus, and eventually a baby. Throughout each phase of growth and development, the DNA of the child directly influences its development. The child’s genome will become its most distinguishing feature; its DNA is different from everyone else’s DNA. However, the child’s genome is directly influenced by the chromosomes the biological parents of the child passed in their egg and sperm. In this sense, the child will develop based on the genes it received from his or her parents; the child’s body shape, eye color, hair color, complexion, and temperament as well as numerous other characteristics will arise based on its inherited genes. Therefore, it is evident that parents directly influence the development of their child in the genetic sense. Once the child is born, however, the child enters into a new environment in which the parents are the sole means of survival and interaction with the world. As a result, a key question arises; to what extent do parents influence the development of their child beyond genetics? How do the environmental interactions with parents influence the development of a child? Studies show that parents greatly influence the dev