Parent-Child Communication in Bereaved Israeli Families

1995 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 275-293 ◽  
Author(s):  
Phyllis R. Silverman ◽  
Anita Weiner ◽  
Nava Elad
Keyword(s):  
Family Caregiver ◽  
Israeli Society ◽  
Parent Child Relationship ◽  
Parent Child Communication ◽  
Child Relationship ◽  
Parents And Children ◽  
Family Language ◽  
Open Family ◽  
The Way ◽  
Parent Child

The nature of surviving parent-child communication in bereaved Israeli families is examined in terms of the culture of Israeli society. Concern is with the way the culture frames the parent-child relationship in the period shortly after the death. Twenty-three surviving parents and their forty-three children between ages of six and sixteen were interviewed four months after the death. Both parents and children seemed concerned with protecting each other from the pain and sadness associated with the loss. Two types of families were identified. In the open family, language is used to console and inform. Parents see themselves as able to respond to their child(ren)'s needs. Less open families used language to influence the child to avoid their feelings and confronting the death. These surviving parents often saw the deceased as the competent family caregiver.

Parent–Child Interaction

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Haley Kranstuber Horstman ◽  
Alexie Hays ◽  
Ryan Maliski
Keyword(s):  
Private Information ◽  
Parenting Practices ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Parent Child Relationship ◽  
Family Structures ◽  
Parent Child Communication ◽  
Child Relationship ◽  
Parents And Children ◽  
Meaningful Relationships ◽  
Parent Child

The parent–child relationship is one of the most influential, important, and meaningful relationships in an individual’s life. The communication between parents and children fuels their bond and functions to socialize children (i.e., gender, career and work, relationship values and skills, and health behaviors), provide social support, show affection, make sense of their life experiences, engage in conflict, manage private information, and create a family communication environment. How parents and children manage these functions changes over time as their relationship adapts over the developmental periods of their lives. Mothers and fathers may also respond differently to the changing needs of their children, given the unique relational cultures that typically exist in mother–child versus father–child relationships. Although research on parent–child communication is vast and thorough, the constant changes faced by families in the 21st century—including more diverse family structures—provides ample avenues for future research on this complex relationship. Parent–child communication in diverse families (e.g., divorced/stepfamilies, adoptive, multiracial, LGBTQ, and military families) must account for the complexity of identities and experiences in these families. Further, changes in society such as advances in technology, the aging population, and differing parenting practices are also transforming the parent–child relationship. Because this relationship is a vital social resource for both parents and children throughout their lives, researchers will undoubtedly continue to seek to understand the complexities of this important family dyad.

scholarly journals Supporting Positive Parenting and Promoting Healthy Living through Family Cooking Classes

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (9) ◽  
pp. 4709
Author(s):  
Mette Kirstine Tørslev ◽  
Dicte Bjarup Thøgersen ◽  
Ane Høstgaard Bonde ◽  
Paul Bloch ◽  
Annemarie Varming
Keyword(s):  
Child Health ◽  
Positive Parenting ◽  
Local Health ◽  
Parent Child Relationship ◽  
Parenting Support ◽  
Child Relationship ◽  
Parents And Children ◽  
Cooking Classes ◽  
Parent Child Relationships ◽  
Parent Child

Background: The family is an important setting in the promotion of child health. The parent–child relationship affects the social and health development of children, and children’s healthy behaviors are associated with positive parenting strategies. The parent–child relationship is bi-directional and the connection between parenting and child health is complex. However, few parenting interventions work with parents and children together, and more knowledge is needed on how to develop and implement interventions promoting healthy parent–child relationships. Focusing on a family cooking class program, this study addresses how community initiatives engaging parents and children together can contribute to integrating parenting support with local health promotion. Methods: Participant-driven photo-elicited interviews (nine families), focus group evaluations (nine parents/14 children) and observations during cooking classes (10 classes) were applied to analyze the tools and mechanisms that can support positive parenting. Results: The study found that visual, practical and sensory learning techniques, applied in a context-sensitive learning environment that ensured guidance, safety and a friendly social atmosphere, contributed to positive parent–child interaction and bonding. Conclusion: The cooking program facilitated parenting practices that support child involvement and autonomy. Thus, the program constituted an effective intervention to strengthen parent–child relationships and positive parenting.

scholarly journals P-CRS: A Clinical Scale to Assess the Parent-Child Relationship in Infancy and Early Childhood

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (10) ◽  
pp. 3458
Author(s):  
Anna Maria Speranza ◽  
Maria Quintigliano ◽  
Marco Lauriola ◽  
Alexandro Fortunato
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Developmental Psychopathology ◽  
Diagnostic Process ◽  
Parent Child Relationship ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Child Relationship ◽  
Parents And Children ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Infancy And Early Childhood ◽  
Parent Child

This study aimed to examine the ability of a new clinician-report tool, the Parent-Child Relationship Scale (P-CRS), to assess the individual contributions that parents and their children make within the parent-child relationship, as well as interactions between parents and children in terms of developmental psychopathology. As clinical diagnoses in early childhood is both important and difficult, it is necessary to identify tools that can effectively contribute to evaluating parent-child relationships during the diagnostic process. A sample of 268 mother-child dyads, taken from both public and private clinical settings, was assessed. Clinicians were asked to assess these dyads using the P-CRS after four to five sessions of clinical evaluation. The results indicated that the three areas assessed by the P-CRS—“Interaction”, “Child” and “Parent”—could have different impacts on the various aspects of the parent-child relationship within distinct diagnostic groups. Thus, our findings support the use of the P-CRS to assist with clinical diagnosis during early childhood.

Shifting the blame frame: Agency and the parent–child relationship in an anti-obesity campaign

Childhood ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 203-219
Author(s):  
Laura Backstrom
Keyword(s):  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
The United States ◽  
Parent Child Relationship ◽  
Child Relationship ◽  
Parents And Children ◽  
Children’S Agency ◽  
Michelle Obama ◽  
Let's Move ◽  
Temporal Dimensions ◽  
Parent Child

Using thematic analysis of 97 Let’s Move! speeches that Michelle Obama delivered as part of her anti-obesity campaign in the United States, I examine how parent’s agency and children’s agency were framed in relation to each other. Drawing on framing theory, I find that parents and children were attributed different temporal dimensions of agency—or no agency at all—in each of Let’s Move!’s six parent–child frames.

Shaping Values

Family Values ◽  
2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harry Brighouse ◽  
Adam Swift
Keyword(s):  
Parental Influence ◽  
Parent Child Relationship ◽  
Child Relationship ◽  
Parents And Children ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Right ◽  
Parent Child ◽  
What Matters

This chapter focuses on the need to protect children from excessive parental influence, while respecting the interest that both parents and children have in the right kind of parent–child relationship. It challenges widespread views about the extent of parents' rights to influence their children's emerging views of the world and what matters in it. Children are separate people, with their own lives to lead, and the right to make, and act on, their own judgments about how they are to live those lives. They are not the property of their parents. And because they are not property, and yet parents are accorded such power over them, it is wrong for parents to treat them as vehicles for their own self-expression, or as means to the realization of their own views on controversial questions about how to live. The desire to extend oneself into the future, and to influence the shape that future takes, can be satisfied in other ways, without a parent relying on that authority over her children that is justified on other grounds.

scholarly journals ‘Another Day, Another Demand’: How Parents and Children Negotiate Consumption Matters

2006 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 84-93 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sharon Boden
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Consumer Culture ◽  
Parent Child Relationship ◽  
Child Relationship ◽  
Parents And Children ◽  
Parent Child

This paper discusses the various kinds of pressure placed on children to consume and how their parents view and deal with this. It focuses on the consumption of clothing, the marketing of ‘fashion’ to youngsters and the commercial opportunities presented to children to construct a particular image of themselves through their choice of attire. Related to these issues are the range of constraints placed upon children's consumption as they desire to seek independence from their parents yet remain embroiled in their social networks where they seek belonging, conformity and inclusion. Leading on from this, the paper goes on to explore whether and to what extent children's increasing engagement with consumer culture affects the parent-child relationship.

Adult parent–child relationships through the lens of social relations analyses: Prosocial personality and reciprocity of support

2011 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 133-145 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cornelia Wrzus ◽  
Jenny Wagner ◽  
Anna Baumert ◽  
Franz J. Neyer ◽  
Frieder R. Lang
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Adult Child ◽  
Parent Child Relationship ◽  
Child Relationship ◽  
Parents And Children ◽  
Relationship Study ◽  
Behavioural Factors ◽  
Parent Child Relationships ◽  
Parent Child

Previous studies on reciprocity of support in parent–child relationships during adulthood have focused on the needs of the recipient and other characteristics of the relationship, whereas the role of personality characteristics is not yet well understood. In the present research, we explored how prosocial dispositions and prosocial behaviour of both parents and adult children relate to perceptions of their relationship as reciprocal with respect to support. Family social relations models were applied to disentangle general relationship behaviour and perceptions from effects unique to the parent–child relationship. Study 1 demonstrated that results based on ‘conventional’ analytic approaches differed markedly from conclusions drawn from social relations models: the former approach indicated parents to report providing more support than their children, the latter approach revealed no differences between parent and adult child regarding their unique relationship. Study 2 extended the findings of Study 1 by focusing on behavioural mediators of the association between prosocial dispositions and perceptions of reciprocal support. Together, the findings provide insight into interdependencies among parents and children and the predictive power of individual as well as behavioural factors for understanding reciprocity of support. Furthermore, they highlight how the interpretation of parent–child relationships depends on the chosen methodological focus. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

scholarly journals A Qualitative Exploration of Emerging Adults’ and Parents’ Perspectives on Communicating Adulthood Status

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica Jablonski ◽  
Sara Martino
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Emerging Adulthood ◽  
Emerging Adults ◽  
Parent Child Relationship ◽  
Parent Child Communication ◽  
Child Relationship ◽  
The Family ◽  
Qualitative Exploration ◽  
Parent Child

In this study the authors examine parent - child communication in Emerging Adulthood. Thirty - seven college students and one or both of their parents completed written questionnaires assessing whether the parent had verbally communicated or did some action to acknowledge the Emerging Adult’s maturity. Communication about changes in the parent - child relationship, as well as the Emerging Adult’s decision - making abilities, obligations to the family, and financial responsibilities were also assessed. The responses to the open ended questions were qualitatively analyzed using grounded theory. The findings indicated that the Emerging Adults’ and parents’ responses were very similar, and the overwhelming majority reported that there had indeed been an acknowledgment from the parents to indicate Emerging Adulthood status, although this was not always verbally communicated; sometimes it was indicated through the parents’ behavior. K

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