ROLES AND RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN PARENTS AND KIDS

Question 1

CHANGES IN CHILDHOOD
What is modern childhood like?

Answer 1

Distinct life stage filled with innocence

Question 2

CHANGES IN CHILDHOOD
Historical childhood
2

Answer 2

1. Aries - in past childhood didn’t exist. No law protection
2. Sims inherit titles

Question 3

CHANGES IN CHILDHOOD
Modern childhood
2

Answer 3

1. Now protected with laws
2. Child centred

Question 4

EMERGENCE OF MODERN CHILDHOOD
5

Answer 4

1. Changes in social attitudes
2. Social policies / children’s rights
3. Child experts
4. Concerns about kids
5. Children are consumers

Question 5

EMERGENCE OF MODERN CHILDHOOD
1. Changes in social attitudes
4

Answer 5

1. Smaller families meet kids needs
2. Shorter working hours
3. Affluence
4. Extension of education

Question 6

EMERGENCE OF MODERN CHILDHOOD
2. Social policies / children rights
3

Answer 6

1. Child acts
2. Child welfare
3. Child protection

Question 7

EMERGENCE OF MODERN CHILDHOOD
3. Child experts
3

Answer 7

1. Medical, psychological, educational
2. Parents must have specific skills
3. Super nanny, books etc

Question 8

EMERGENCE OF MODERN CHILDHOOD
4. Concerns for kids
3

Answer 8

1. Stranger danger
2. Moral panic
3. Cunningham - 8 year olds travel 1/90 to 25 years ago

Question 9

EMERGENCE OF MODERN CHILDHOOD
4. Concerns about kids
Who said - 8 year olds travel 1/90 to 25 years ago

Answer 9

Cunningham

Question 10

EMERGENCE OF MODERN CHILDHOOD
5. Children as consumers
2

Answer 10

1. More consumer products catered to kids - pester power
2. Parents spend £460 yearly on things kids don’t need

Question 12

POWER RELATIONS BETWEEN KIDS AND PARENTS
Kids ARE powerful

Answer 12

Kids protected from low / child centred

Question 13

POWER RELATIONS BETWEEN KIDS AND PARENTS
Kids ARE NOT powerful
5

Answer 13

1. Gittens age patriarchy - adults powerful
2. Children financially dependent til 16
3. Kids have laws but parents make descision a
4. Not full rights til 18
5. Suffer abuse from adults

Question 14

POWER RELATIONS BETWEEN KIDS AND PARENTS
Who made the age patriarchy

Answer 14

Gittens

Question 15

Palmers toxic childhood
Why?

Answer 15

Junk food, tech, lack of love, parents working long hours

Question 16

Study by NSPCC

Answer 16

1/20 sexually assaulted, 1/3 didn’t tell an adult
1/5 severe maltreatment

Question 17

DIVERSITY IN CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES
CLASS
Gov stats

Answer 17

27% kids living in poverty

Question 18

DIVERSITY IN CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES
GENDER

Answer 18

Ann Oakley
Manipulation
Canalisation
Verbal application
Different activities

Question 19

DIVERSITY IN CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES
ETHNICITY
2

Answer 19

1. Bhatti - Asian kids are more strictly brought up than other ethnicities
2. Barn - south Asian and black families make less money, hard to raise kids. Extended family helps

Question 20

DIVERSITY IN CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES
ETHNICITY
What did Bhatti say

Answer 20

Bhatti - Asian kids are more strictly brought up than other ethnicities

Question 21

DIVERSITY IN CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES
What did barn say?

Answer 21

Barn - south Asian and black families make less money, hard to raise kids. Extended family helps

Question 22

CHANGES IN PARENTING
Chambers 2 ways that good parenting changes after 1970s

Answer 22

1. Growth of employment with women with kids
2. Rise in divorce rates

Question 23

CHANGES IN PARENTING
However households are still heavily ____ and ____

Answer 23

Gendered and traditional

Question 24

CHANGES IN PARENTING
MOTHERHOOD
McCarthy

Answer 24

Women still feel like they need to conform to traditional norms to be a good mother

Question 25

CHANGES IN PARENTING
MOTHERHOOD
Backs McCarthys point 4

Answer 25

1. Primary responsibility for kids
2. Ensure dads do good fathering
3. Divorced = bad mothers
4. Triple shift - paid work, emotional work, domestic work

Question 26

CHANGES IN PARENTING
MOTHERHOOD
What is the triple shift?

Answer 26

Paid work, emotional labour, domestic labour

Question 27

CHANGES IN PARENTING
MOTHERHOOD
Who said the minority of kids are raised by more than 1 mother figure

Answer 27

Park

Question 28

CHANGES IN PARENTING
MOTHERHOOD
Park - minority of kids raised by more than 1 mother figure
Why is this false

Answer 28

-foster / adoptive
-biological and step
- poly
- same sex

Question 29

CHANGES IN PARENTING
FATHERHOOD
Dads on dads study, 4 types of dads

Answer 29

1. Enforcer - traditional and strict
2. Entertainer - keep kids occupied as mothers work
3. Useful dads - occasionally pitch in
4. Fully involved - equal roles

Question 30

CHANGES IN PARENTING
FATHERHOOD
Sevilla time budget diary

Answer 30

Compare time spent with parents today from 70s
Dads - now 35 mins, hard to be 5 mins
Mums - now 1 hour, used to be 15 mins

Question 31

CHANGES IN PARENTING
FATHERHOOD
Fathers post divorce stats

Answer 31

1. 1/4 not seen kids in 1 year
2. 1/2 not paid child maintainable

Question 32

CHANGES IN PARENTING
FATHERHOOD
Gray - dads want to spend time with kids. Not manual labour
2

Answer 32

•8/10 happy to combine work with childcare
•2/3 take paternity leave (2 weeks paid, 4 weeks unpaid)

Question 33

CHANGES IN PARENTING
GRANDPARENTS
Grandparents DO help with childcare
Sociologist?

Answer 33

Statham

Question 34

CHANGES IN PARENTING
GRANDPARENTS
Grandparents DO help with childcare
Statham
4

Answer 34

1. Babysitting
2. Multigenerational
3. Abusive parents
4. Sick

Question 35

CHANGES IN PARENTING
GRANDPARENTS
Grandparents DO NOT help with childcare
Sociologist?

Answer 35

Chambers

Question 36

CHANGES IN PARENTING
GRANDPARENTS
Grandparents DO NOT help with childcare
Chambers
4

Answer 36

1. Grand parenting gendered (gendered) grandma
2. Working
3. Not live close by
4. Divorce leads to decline of seeing grandparents