Roles and relationships between parents and children

Question 1

What does Stone (1990) say

Answer 1

Up until the eighteenth-century children were regarded as extra workers to help their parents or be hired out for wages by poorer families. In richer families, sons were there to inherit titles and property and daughters to be married off to create alliances with other powerful families. Only in modern times has this notion that children should be loved and protected emerged

Question 2

How are modern families now

Answer 2

Child-centred

Question 3

What are 3 features of a modern childhood

Answer 3

• Smaller families - More love and money spent on each child
• Shorter working hours - Parents have more time with their children
• Greater affluence - Better living standards and better wages means more money for children

Question 4

What happened to education and why is it important

Answer 4

• 1880s: Education became compulsory for all children under 10
• 1972: School leaving age rose to 16
• 2008: School leaving age rose to 18
• Keeps children dependant on parents and out of the adult world for llonger

Question 5

What happened to social policy

Answer 5

Government emphasised child welfare and protection

Question 6

What laws were passed to protect children

Answer 6

• 1989: UNCRC

- 2004: Children’s Act

Question 7

What are child experts

Answer 7

Medical, pscological and educational experts who teach the skill of parenting e.g. Supernanny

Question 8

What is Furedi’s(2001) theory

Answer 8

The worry about stranger danger and paedophiles is largely a moral panic encouraged by the media and parents fears are largely unjustified

Question 9

What does Cunnigham (2007) argue

Answer 9

The home habitat oof 8 yo has shrunk to 1/9 of the size 25 years ago

Question 10

What is pester power and what is the data on it

Answer 10

• Encouraging parents to buy tthings they don’t need

- The Telegraph (2013) said parents spend £460 a year due to pester power