Parent-Child Socialization

Peterson, Gary W.; Rollins, Boyd C.

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“…Our analysis of the influence of parents' marital quality in affecting the transmission of attitudes across generations begins with the observation that there is a substantial amount of research linking parents' and children's family-related attitudes (Axinn and Thornton 1996;Kapinus 2004;Moen, Erickson, and Dempster-McClain 1995). Children may adopt attitudes similar to their parents as a result of passive internalization (Campbell 1969), or parents may take a more active role by using support or control to encourage their children's adoption of similar attitudes (Gecas and Seff 1990;Peterson and Rollins 1987). It is also possible that parents and children hold similar attitudes as a result of shared social position (Glass, Bengtson, and Dunham 1986).…”

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The influence of parents’ marital quality on adult children’s attitudes toward marriage and its alternatives: Main and moderating effects

Cunningham

Thornton

2006

Demography

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Drawing on a panel study of parents and children, we investigate linkages between parents' marital quality and adult children's attitudes toward a range of family issues, including premarital sex, cohabitation, lifelong singlehood, and divorce. We hypothesize that parents' marital quality will be negatively related to children's support for these behaviors in adulthood and that parents' marital quality will condition the intergenerational transmission of attitudes toward these issues. We find some evidence that parents' marital quality influences children's support for divorce and premarital sex. More important, our analyses show that parents' marital quality facilitates the intergenerational transmission of attitudes. Parents' attitudes toward premarital sex, cohabitation, and being single are more strongly linked to those same attitudes among their young adult children when parents' marital quality is high than when it is low.Historically, marriage in the United States constituted a unified set of ideas about appropriate adult behavior. Marriage conferred adult status and set the boundaries for sexual activity, childbearing, and living arrangements with a sexual partner. Marriage defined the kinds of work performed by husbands and wives and was viewed as a lifelong endeavor. In recent decades, however, marriage has been largely deinstitutionalized; its meaning is no longer broadly shared, and the package of behaviors that were associated with marriage in the past have become much less closely linked (Cherlin 2004). Behaviors such as premarital sex, cohabitation, childbearing outside of marriage, extended singlehood, and divorce have become much more common in recent years, and they have also become more widely accepted (Thornton and Young-DeMarco 2001). The goal of this article is to investigate the ways in which parents' marriages shape children's attitudes about behaviors that conflict with historical definitions of marriage. Understanding the factors influencing attitudes about marriage and family life is important in part because these attitudes have been linked with behaviors such as premarital sex, cohabitation, and divorce (Axinn and Thornton 1992Thornton , 1993Bumpass 2002). We expect that the quality of marital relationships observed by the children of married parents will shape children's attitudes toward the behaviors that have historically been associated with marriage. We also hypothesize that parents' marital quality will condition the intergenerational transmission of attitudes about marriage and its alternatives.

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The influence of parents’ marital quality on adult children’s attitudes toward marriage and its alternatives: Main and moderating effects

Cunningham

Thornton

2006

Demography

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“…Research has generally focused on four traditions: the parent effect perspective, the child effects perspective, the reciprocal socialization perspective, and the systemic-ecological perspective [12,14]; each perspective provides a unique understanding to child socialization. The parent effect perspective addresses how the different styles, behaviors, and dispositions of parents socialize traits and behavior in children.…”

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Gender Socialization and Identity Theory

Carter

2014

Social Sciences

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Gender socialization is examined through a social psychological lens by applying identity theory and identity control theory. Current research from the fields of family and sociological social psychology are surveyed to provide a better conception of how the family operates as agents of socialization, and how identities that are cultivated and fostered in youth provide meaning throughout the life course and maintain the social order. The application of identity theory shows how gender is a diffuse status characteristic, which is salient in person, role, and social (group) identities, and also across social situations. Identity control theory is applied to show how emotions operate within an internal control system to stabilize gendered identities and perpetuate the social structure. Both theories are specifically applied to understand socialization dynamics that exist for children and families.

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“…Au cours du dernier quart de siècle, on a accordé beaucoup d'attention aux conséquences des actions socialisatrices mises en oeuvre dans les relations parents-enfants. La recherche empirique a montré que différentes combinaisons de contrôle et de soutien conduisent à des attitudes contrastées à l'issue du processus de socialisation (Peterson et Boyd, 1987). A première vue, substituer les normes sociales aux raisons individuelles comme variables explicatives peut avoir pour effet d'exagérer l'importance des contraintes collectives et de renforcer inutilement une conception holiste du social.…”

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Les sociologues et le postulat de rationalité1

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Parent-Child Socialization

Cited by 160 publications

References 174 publications

The influence of parents’ marital quality on adult children’s attitudes toward marriage and its alternatives: Main and moderating effects

The influence of parents’ marital quality on adult children’s attitudes toward marriage and its alternatives: Main and moderating effects

Gender Socialization and Identity Theory

Les sociologues et le postulat de rationalité1

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