C1 SB - Families & Relationships - Topic 11, Roles & relationships between parents and children

Question 1

Child-centredness

Answer 1

Children no longer considered to serve the needs of adults, families revolve around the children’s needs.

Question 2

General changes in childhood:

Answer 2

Extension of education
Children's rights (1989 & 2004 Children's Act)
Child experts 
Concerns about children 
Children as consumers

Question 3

• Frank Furedi ( 2001) - Paranoid parents

Answer 3

Constant obsession with protecting children from risk and danger, may prevent children from developing a healthy sense of adventure

Question 4

• Sue Palmer ( 2007) - Toxic childhood

Answer 4

Children deprived of traditional childhood due to: emergence of technology, junk food and lack of love from parents.

Question 5

+ Anne Gray ( 2006) - Fathers and quality time

Answer 5

Fathers wanted to spend quality time with children through activities such as going to the park, but felt pressure due to long work hours.

Question 6

+ Esther Dermott (2003) - Intimate relationships

Answer 6

Interviews with 25 fathers: Majority wanted a more intimate relationship with their children than they had with their own fathers

Question 7

+ Sevilla (2014) - Time budget diaries

Answer 7

Fathers spend 7 times as much time with children than they spent with their own fathers.

Question 8

+ Hatter et al (2002) - 4 types of fathers

Conclusion

Answer 8

1) Enforcer dad
2) Entertainer dad
3) Useful dads
4) Fully involved dad
British men have changed a lot but continue to see themselves as the breadwinner.

Question 9

Pester power

Answer 9

Ability of children to pressurise their parents into getting them what they want.

Question 10

Relationships are not changing:

Answer 10

Age patriarchy, no fully adult rights
Radford et al ( child abuse)
Anne Gray ( felt pressure due to long hours)
Hatter et al ( men see themselves as breadwinner)
Sevilla (mothers still spend more time with children)