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Families are the primary context for development for most children. Families today take many different forms, but whether they are nuclear families, single-parent families, multigenerational families, step- or adoptive families, they all serve one important function: They are responsible for the socialization of their children. They instill the norms, values, attitudes, and beliefs of their culture so that children grow up to be positive, contributing members of their society. We discuss the effect of different family forms on child development in later chapters, and also examine the ways that families link children and adolescents to the other contexts that influence their development.

Socialization: The process of instilling the norms, values, attitudes, and beliefs of a culture in its children.