Culture Influence and Parenting Styles

Cultural Influence and Parenting Styles

Introduction

Parents have the greatest impact on the lives of their children. That is why their understanding of what children need to think about how they need to learn and how they need to be nurtured, is crucial in shaping the future behaviors of growing children. Factors such as genes, environment, culture, gender and financial situation, have a lower value. Studies show that there is a relationship between parental parenting style and academic performance in school; moreover, sexual activity is likely to be involved in crime, cruelty and anti-social behavior, depression, alcohol and drug use, as well as its level of self-esteem.

Parenting Style refers to the methods and forms of the parents in the upbringing and parents, indulged by various parenting behavior characteristics, usually do education of children. Parenting styles affect factors is the factors affecting parents to form some kind of upbringing. After the 1970s, with the rise of the two-way mode of the ecology of human development proposed, as well as parent-child interaction, researchers began to research interests turned to the rearing styles of influencing factors. Ecology-based research methods, the researchers not only proceed from the internal factors of the family system, will also be extended to the family outside the system research perspective, attention to the cultural background of macroeconomic factors such as social class, geographical differences in the way of parenting.

Parenting Style began in the 1980s; the first studies mainly focus on the characteristics, type of rearing styles and Child Development. With the acceleration of international exchange and in-depth China scholars also gradually starting to focus on of Parenting Style influencing factors, and showing some of the characteristics based on this, trying to sort out in recent years, Chinese scholars focused heavily on parenting influencing factors. In order to more, clearly present the domestic research field characteristics

Discussion

A family system of internal factors Parenting Style Judging from the existing research from within the family system factors to examine the Parenting Style influencing factors research has focused on the parents and children, on the other aspects, such as the family structure, inspection of the home environment and other factors not yet. The Chinese have been recognized for excelling in upbringing their children well and providing them with exceptional nurturance.

“When it comes to parenting, the Chinese seem to produce children who display academic excellence, musical mastery and professional success - or so the stereotype goes.”

In chinese culture, during the early years of a child's life - which many consider as a period unique in human development - parents play a crucial role as counselors, mentors, and nurturers. As leading their young children from total dependence to the first steps toward autonomy, the style of parental care provided by Chinese parents has an immediate impact and lasting on the social functioning of children in areas such as moral development, social development and school success.

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