Parental Roles

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Parental Roles
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Parenting in the Past

• In previous generations, parents relied on firm
  disciplinary practices and unquestioning
  obedience from their children
• Why do you suppose that was?

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Societys Demands in the past

• In the past, society demanded strict obedience to
  authority this even extended in to the home
• Development of self-discipline was a key concept
• Some forms of discipline would be classed as
  child abuse today

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Societys Demands Today

• parents tend to be more democratic in their
  parenting today
• Children are shown more affection from parents
• Why is this?
• Parents take their parenting cues from the
  society in which they live

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Parents Responsibilities

• One of the most important task every parent has
  is to socialize their children
• This means that children need to learn their
  culture and acquire their personality and
  personal values
• They need to learn how to function in society and
  the world around them

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3 important aspects of socialization

• 1. what will the childs attitudes and behaviours
  be to social institutions and cultural norms?
• 2. How do the people who are doing the
  socialization affect the individual?
• 3. How does socialization take place?

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How do parents do this?

• By influencing and shaping their behaviour
• At the same time, children can also socialize
  their parents!

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2 preconditions for socialization

• 1. the child must have the physical capacity to
  learn
• 2. The child must live in a society that has
  values, norms, roles, institutions etc

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Changing roles of Mom and Dad

• For centuries and in almost every culture in the
  world, women have been the primary caregiver to
  children
• However, that is beginning to change,
  particularly in North America, since more and
  more women are returning to the workforce after
  they have chidren

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Changes in Fathers Roles

• This has led to some significant changes over the
  past 60 years
• -in the past the father has been viewed as the
  father of the family must be the master in his
  own house
• Dad was responsible for being the breadwinner

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Fathers more involved

• In todays society, fathers are more involved,
  right from the beginning most take prenatal
  classes and are at their childs birth
• Obviously, for the first year, dads play a very
  important supporting role moms are the
  nurtures and dads look after mom
• There has been more research lately about the
  importance of a father in a childs life

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Societys Acceptance

• Is society ready to accept the new roles that
  fathers are undertaking the nurturing, the care
  giving, that for centuries were the territory of
  mothers
• The text book speaks of a lack of role models for
  dads they cant look to their own fathers as
  the model
• It also mentions that dads are not treated well
  by society but this is changing paternity
  leave being one example

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How Do Fathers Fit In?

• Read article How do Fathers Fit In? as well as
  page 318 in text book.
• Write a journal entry on how the role of the
  father has changed.
• (Please hand this in)