Parenting And Socioeconomic Status

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Parenting & Socioeconomical Status (Tichina) When it comes to taking care of a family, the environment plays a huge factor in the children’s life (Reyes, 2007). Their environment shapes their character, social groups and perception of reality. Youth from low SES areas are more susceptible to poor behaviours, such as, drug use or dealing, delinquent behaviours, risky sexual activities or earlier pregnancies (Voisin et al, 2016). The incomes of the parents do not play a huge factor in determining parenting styles (Anton, Jones & Youngstrom, 2015; Chang et al, 2006), but it does play a factor in determining their socioeconomic status. In recent studies, there is a lack of evidence stating that parents of high SES parent in a certain way and parents …show more content…

With their living conditions, they are more exposed to unsafe conditions compared to middle-income Caucasian families and as a result, the parent(s) must resort to a parenting style that demonstrates more control over their children. Parents who follow the authoritarian parenting style demonstrate high control in their children and show low warmth. Compared to this style of parenting, Anton, Jones and Youngstrom found that African-American mothers tend to show high control over their children, but a medium or high level of warmth. That style is called ‘no-nonsense parenting’, and found that the African-American children are more independent, assertive, and have a higher level of cognitive and social competence (Anton, Jones &Youngstrom, 2015). In opposing findings, it suggests that African-Americans and Latinos demonstrate less warmth towards their children compared to Caucasian families, but they are not considering the conditions in which they live in (Henninger & Gross, 2016). Research proposes that the higher level of control may acts as a ‘protective role’ to ensure the safety of their children in their environment. The parenting styles of low socioeconomic status families are slightly frowned upon because they do not follow the typical parenting styles of the middle-class income families (Zilberstein,

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