Growing up in a Culture of Respect: Child Rearing in Highland Peru

2006 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 430-432 ◽  
Author(s):  
Inge Bolin
Keyword(s):  
Child Rearing ◽  
Growing Up

The Handicapped Child

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1951 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 158-158
Keyword(s):  
Child Care ◽  
Medical Profession ◽  
Handicapped Child ◽  
Child Rearing ◽  
Growing Up

Despite the best efforts of the medical profession, there continue to be parents whose children are handicapped either in their senses or in their limbs. For these parents, devoid as they often are of the joy of seeing their child growing up normally, and plagued as they are by both fears and guilt, Mrs. Stern and Miss Castendyck have written this book. As they themselves point out, it is neither a general manual on child care nor encyclopedic in terms of illnesses, but it stresses "the fact that good principles of child rearing apply equally to the normal and the handicapped."

Child Rearing, Prosocial Moral Reasoning, and Prosocial Behaviour

1997 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 509-527 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan M.A.M. Janssens ◽  
Maja Deković
Keyword(s):  
Moral Reasoning ◽  
Child Rearing ◽  
Prosocial Behaviour ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
Moral Issues ◽  
Restrictive Environment ◽  
At Home

This study examined the relations between child rearing, prosocial moral reasoning, and prosocial behaviour. The sample consisted of 125 children (6-11 years of age) and both their parents. Child-rearing behaviour was assessed by both observations at home and interviews with the parents; prosocial moral reasoning by interviews with the children, and prosocial behaviour by questionnaires filled in by their teachers and classmates. Positive relations were found between prosocial moral reasoning and prosocial behaviour, but only for the youngest children. Children growing up in a supportive, authoritative, and less restrictive environment behaved more prosocially and reasoned at a higher level about prosocial moral issues.

scholarly journals ‘Tear down your institutions’. Empirical and evolutionary perspectives on institutional care in SOS Children’s Villages

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marinus H. van IJzendoorn ◽  
Marian Bakermans-Kranenburg
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Child Development ◽  
Small Group ◽  
Scientific Evidence ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Institutional Care ◽  
Family Care ◽  
Physical Growth ◽  
Child Rearing ◽  
Growing Up

Typical large-group institutions for abandoned children or orphans are bad for the development of children. From an evolutionary perspective 24/7 institutional care by professional caregivers is outside any ‘Environment of Evolutionary Adaptedness’. Hamilton’s rule makes clear why nevertheless institutional care emerged. A central question is whether small-group care in institutional settings is the exception and provides good-enough care? SOS Children’s Villages use small group housing and try to mimic a family-like child-rearing environment to promote child development. In a narrative and quantitative synthesis, the scientific evidence on the associations between growing up in SOS villages and child development in various domains is reviewed. Searches in Web of Sciences, PubMed and Google Scholar yielded 8 eligible empirical studies on N = 1,567 children (including 914 SOS children). Random effects meta-analyses were conducted on physical growth and mental health comparing SOS children with children growing up in typical institutions and in families. Results showed developmental delays of SOS children compared with their peers in families. Compared to children in typical institutions SOS children do better on mental health but worse on physical growth. The preliminary evidence suggests that SOS Children’s Villages should move away from institutional arrangements to family care.

scholarly journals Unharmonious early bilingualism in inter-ethnic Lithuanian emigrant familie

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Inga Hilbig
Keyword(s):  
Minority Language ◽  
Child Rearing ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Negative Attitudes ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Comprehension Skills ◽  
Language Classes ◽  
The Face ◽  
Discourse Strategies

The article seeks to investigate the main reasons that cause inharmonious early bilingualism in inter-ethnic Lithuanian emigrant families. The data consist of extracts from 25 semi-structured interviews with Lithuanian women and Facebook comments of such emigrant mothers. Firstly, the study identifies the reasons why some informants themselves do not speak Lithuanian in their families, which leads to their children not even being able to understand it. These reasons can be lack of knowledge about the nature of early simultaneous bilingualism with a minority language, weak or negative attitudes towards Lithuanian and / or Lithuania, urgent need to fully integrate, influence of non-Lithuanian speaking partners, dominance of the majority language over bilingual mothers, and children’s passive bilingualism or insufficient comprehension skills. On their part, children can be growing up passively bilingual because of the minority language input shortage, not enough possibilities and real need to practice it in their daily lives, and because mothers tolerate bilingual conversations with certain discourse strategies. Finally, this paper examines the factors determining underdeveloped or attriting competences in the minority language. Children might be able to participate in very simple colloquial conversations in Lithuanian but cannot express themselves more freely in it or on different topics. They lack higher quality and more various input, e.g. through books or films in the Lithuanian language. They protest against minority language classes, where they could have a chance to learn to read and write in the minority language and further develop their skills. The analysis has revealed a variety of different reasons and their complex combinations that contribute to inharmonious bilingualism with Lithuanian as a minority language. They are objective and subjective, primary and secondary, sociolinguistic, psychological, pedagogical, and maybe some other reasons. A crucial role is played by mothers’ negative emotions in the face of struggles and children’s resistance, which also negatively affects success in bilingual child-rearing.

Growing up in South Malabar

1963 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 54-65 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joan Mencher
Keyword(s):  
Rapid Change ◽  
Child Rearing ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
Adult Behavior ◽  
Family Organization ◽  
Women And Children ◽  
Kerala State ◽  
Rearing Methods ◽  
Caste Groups ◽  
The Village

One major assumption of modern anthropology is that there is a relationship between the institutions and values of a given society, the types of adult behavior favored in that setting, and methods of child rearing. This article, based on research data collected from Nayars and members of other matrilineal caste groups in the village of Angadi, South Malabar, Kerala State, India, suggests a correlation between the form of family organization, ideals of "proper behavior" for men, women and children, and some of the methods of inculcating social values. When a change occurs in the family organization—in this case the breakdown of large matrilineal, matrilocal household units into smaller groupings—those aspects of behavioral ideals and child rearing methods most directly dependent on the structure of the group evidence the most rapid change.

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