Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Change in relationships between
parents and children
- Changes in family structure
- Family life is insecure for children due to increasing diversity of family. Increase in lone parent
families which affects relationships between parents and children.
- HSBC (2007)
- Found only 1/60 couples fully share parenting
before a divorce. Even after the divorce, many
mothers still advise their former spouses about
how to relate to their children.
- Paranoid parents
- Due to cultural changes and societal changes and changes in family diversity, there are now more
concerns about the safety and wellbeing of children
- Furedi (2001)
- Argues that paranoid parenting has lead to parents not wanting to let
children to go out alone and has reduced independence; this has also
impacted children's fitness levels.
- Changes in legislation
- Government see children as being vulnerable and needing protection - responsibility of the state not
just solely individual families.
- Children's Act 1989
- Child's welfare is of
paramount
importannce.
- Key information
- Palmer (2006) - “toxic childhood” due to cultural changes
‘pacifying’ children through TV, video games etc.
- Parents spend less time with children, so less
socialisation. Rise in the child consumer.