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Friedson, M. (2016). Authoritarian parenting attitudes and social origin: The multigenerational relationship of socioeconomic position to childrearing values. Child abuse & neglect, 51, 263-275.
In this article, Friedson (2016) offers an interesting insight into the relationship between socioeconomic position and child-rearing values. The purpose of this article is to inform the readers why some parents still support the authoritarian type of parenting despite several studies proving that it is detrimental to the children’s development and educational performance. Indeed, the author of this article attains purpose successfully. Precisely, he attains this goal by illustrating how childrearing values are inherited from one generation to another. Besides, he proves that these inherited values are not altered even after a person moves from one socioeconomic level to a higher ones
