child rearing

To a great extent, culture determines the way children are brought up and raised. Child rearing practices vary from culture to culture. Families in all societies have three basic goals for their children (LeVine, 1974). First, families have the survival goal, which promotes the physical survival and health of the child. Second, there is the economic goal, which is used to foster skills and behavioral capacities that the child needs for economic self-maintenance as an adult. …

…appear to treat their children very differently based on gender. Fathers, however, pay more attention to their sons and are stricter with them than with their daughters. Native-American societies are typically collective, cooperative, and have extended family networks. Traditional values and beliefs about spirituality respect for elders, and family guide the parenting process. Thus, children are typically treated permissively and taught to respect their elders, to cooperate, to be nonassertive, and not to display emotion.