The influence of parents and family context on children's involvement in household tasks

Antill, John K.; Goodnow, Jacqueline J.; Russell, Graeme; Cotton, Sandra

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“…Several empirical studies have found support consistent with Coltrane's (2000) conclusion that household work is still divided along gender lines (Antill, Goodnow, Russell, & Cotton, 1996;Crouter, Manke, & McHale, 1995;Ruble & Martin, 1998), and parents have reported large gender differences regarding who does the chores, with girls doing most of the cleaning and kitchen work and boys doing most of the yard work and trash clean-up (Goodnow & Delaney, 1989;Liben & Bigler, 2002;Robinson & Milkie, 1998). Although this research points to the benefit of engaging in household work, little is known about whether young children perceive the distribution of chores based on gender as legitimate or unfair.…”

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Children's Evaluations of Gender-Stereotypic Household Activities in the Family Context

Schuette

Killen

2009

Early Education & Development

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Children's Evaluations of Gender-Stereotypic Household Activities in the Family Context

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Killen

2009

Early Education & Development

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“…In mainstream American society, the assumption is that, if housework is to be performed by children, it will most likely be assigned on the basis of gender, such that girls do what are considered the most feminine tasks, such as cooking, cleaning, and laundry, and boys do the most masculine tasks, such as garbage disposal and yard work. In practice, that corresponds to the gender-typing of children's household labor (Antil, Goodnow, Russell, & Cotton, 1996;Blair, 1992).…”

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“To Cook, Sew, to Be a Man”: The Socialization for Competence and Black Men's Involvement in Housework

Penha-Lopes

2006

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The context in which Black children do housework and its effect on adult behavior have been relatively unexplored. This article presents analyses of the recollections of 45 Black fathers of young children about performing household chores when they were children and its relevance for their involvement in housework as adults. The fathers' relatively high involvement in housework is traced to the "socialization for competence" that most of them experienced as boys. Four dimensions in the socialization for competence are discussed: the actual household chores done in childhood, the ways of performing them, the rationale for assigning them, and parents' justifications for making children engage in housework. Although the childhood socialization for competence does not translate uniformly into men's sharing housework equally, it takes away ineptitude as an excuse for resisting housework as adults.KEY WORDS: childhood socialization; housework; African-American men.Thanks to numerous studies over the past two decades, we now know that Black husbands and fathers do significantly more housework than do men of other racial-that is so, then Black women's earlier, heavier, and more continuous participation in the paid labor force than White women's (Hochschild, 1995;Landry, 2000), coupled with their espousal of egalitarian attitudes toward family and paid work as early as the late nineteenth century (Landry, 2000), may help explain Black men's higher involvement in housework. Yet, scholars have left the context in which Black children do housework and its effect on later adult behavior relatively unexplored.In this article I address those issues by presenting an analysis of the recollections of 45 Black men about performing household chores when they were children and its relevance for their involvement in housework as adults. This analysis is informed by the premise that the role of early socialization is more complex than a "baseline" for a life course (Gerson, 1985(Gerson, , 1993. To say that childhood experiences are important does not mean that adults simply replicate the lives of their role models or that those early experiences determine adult outcomes; it does, however, indicate that those experiences are available as meaningful future references, even if only 261

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“…Parents' gender-based expectations about appropriate child rearing may affect children directly through their differential treatment of sons and daughters, a pattern to which fathers, in particular, are often prone (Adams & Coltrane, 2005;Lytton & Romney, 1991;Maccoby, 1992). For instance, parents expect daughters, more often than sons, to perform routine household labor such as cooking or cleaning, whereas boys are more often expected to take responsibility for outdoor chores such as lawn care (Antill, Goodnow, Russell, & Cotton, 1996;Blair, 1992). In this way, expectations about gendered family roles are transmitted intergenerationally.…”

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Cross-ethnic Applicability of the Gender-based Attitudes Toward Marriage and Child Rearing Scales

2007

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The reliability and validity of Hoffman and Kloska's (1995) Gender-based Attitudes toward Marital Roles (GATMR) and Gender-based Attitudes toward Child Rearing (GATCR) were assessed for a sample of Mexican American mothers and fathers (n=167) of fifth-grade children in a large metropolitan area in the southwestern United States. Factor analysis was conducted, and the results suggest that the 6-item GATMR is conceptually distinct and reliable for this ethnic group. Correlation of GATMR scores for mothers and fathers with divisions of family labor suggest good validity. A 5-item revised GATCR demonstrated modest reliability and good construct validity. The value of these scales for work with Mexican American families is noted. Theoretical implications for gender socialization are explored, and suggestions for further research are offered.

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The influence of parents and family context on children's involvement in household tasks

Cited by 40 publications

References 21 publications

Children's Evaluations of Gender-Stereotypic Household Activities in the Family Context

Children's Evaluations of Gender-Stereotypic Household Activities in the Family Context

“To Cook, Sew, to Be a Man”: The Socialization for Competence and Black Men's Involvement in Housework

Cross-ethnic Applicability of the Gender-based Attitudes Toward Marriage and Child Rearing Scales

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