3.8 - roles and relationships between parents and children

• 3.8 Stone


  kids as extra workers

  until eighteenth century, children were regarded as extra workers to help parents
• 3.8 Furedi


  moral panic

  concerns about children largely moral panic and parents fears are unjustified
• 3.8 Cunningham


  changes in home habit

  habit of typical eight year olds(area can travel on own) shrank to 1/9 from 25 years ago
• 3.8 Palmer


  toxic childhood

  childhood damaged due to

  junk food

  computer game exposure

  lack of love from parents
• 3.8 Bhatti


  south asian children generally more strictly brought up than most other ethnic groups
• 3.8 McCarthy


  women still feel pressure to conform to traditional monthering including finding a good father
• 3.8 Chambers


  changes in motherhood

  ideas about good parenting changed due to growth of unemployment and rise in divorce rates

  many still adopt traditional gender roles
• 3.8 Park


  ideology of monomaternalism

  still prevalent ideas that you can only have one mum
• 3.8 Sevilla


  fathers spend 7x more time with they kids than 40 years ago

  men = 5 min/day -> 35min

  women = 15 min/day -> 1hr
• 3.8 Thompson


  paternity leave

  2/3rds of fathers take paternity leave

  8/10 dads said happy to stay at home
• 3.8 Hatter

  considerable diversity when studying the involvement of fathers in the family
• 3.8 HSBC


  grandparents childcare would cost the economy £50 billion in private healthcare
• 3.8 Dermott


  all fathers asked wanted better relationships with their kids than they had with their father
• 3.8 Chambers


  issues with grandparents

  still very gendered - grandmother plays larger role

  many still employed or have social roles

  extended families now geographically further