ABSTRACT
The chapter begins with a monologue attesting to the importance of parents’ trust in their children. The chapter reviews the potential causes of the development of trust, including research suggesting that it is affected by genetic and environmental causes, and parents and other adult informants. The review includes description of the quality and consequences of children’s trust in peers, teachers/school, and neighbourhood. The chapter included in a review of the theory/research regarding Erikson’s model and Rotenberg’s (2015) model of developmental changes in trust. The chapter ends in a description of the problems that children/adults experience regarding trust as a result of divorce. The applied focus includes research-guided suggestions for parenting strategies that could promote trusting parent-child relationship during marital transitions.
