Grandmothers and Mothers: An Intergenerational Comparison of Child-rearing Practices with Pre-schoolers

✍ Scribed by Honig, Alice S. ;Deters, Kathleen

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1996
• Weight: 881 KB
• Volume: 5
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1057-3593
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1099-0917(199603)5:1<47::aid-edp114>3.0.co;2-r

✦ Synopsis

Changes towards modernity in attitudes and behaviours in childrearing come slowly. Stresses may arise in families when the developmental understandings of grandparents and parents lead to incompatible beliefs and practices. This research used in-depth, persona1 and separate interviews with 126 subjects, grandmothers and their grown daughters, to ascertain domains of congruence and of disparity in the child-rearing attitudes and techniques reported by each respondent. Greater awareness of areas where grandparents and parents agree and where they differ can lead to more efforts to understand each other's viewpoints and to reconcile differences which otherwise might lead to feelings of alienation or rejection between family members from different generations.