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What Is Bronfenbrenner's Ecological Theories Of Child Development?

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Bronfenbrenner (1979)’s ecological system theory of development provides an understanding of how interplay of factors influences a child development. His theory of ecological system proposes that the family system must maintain some degree of balance for continued existence. Furthermore, the theory links child abuse and dysfunctional family patterns and the onset of personality disorders including sexual abuse. Perpetrators of sexual abuse engage in this type of crime as result of deviant in their psychological make up. Social relationships and the world around a child, affect a child 's development (Bronfenbrenner, 1979, as cited in Mullins, 2014). The micro system (family, peers and caregivers) is the one that is the closest to a child as

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