Support in parenting: Values and consensus concerning who to turn to
Support in parenting: Values and consensus concerning who to turn to
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DOI：
10.1017/s0047279404008037
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发表时间：
2004-10-01
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2
通讯作者：
Gillies, V
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作者：
Edwards, R;Gillies, V
近年来，作为政策干预的一个指定领域，人们明确关注养育子女。在社会变革的条件下，父母被摆成需要“专家”的教育和建议的样子。本文以8-12岁儿童的父母为样本，对政府政策旨在灌输的父母应该向谁寻求支持的规范与父母自己持有的规范进行了对比。它使用“共识基线”方法来观察父母对育儿支持方面的社会变化的看法，以及他们是否对在育儿方面向谁求助以及寻求何种帮助持有规范：实际的、情感的、行为的、健康的和教育的。我们的研究结果表明，如果政策制定者想要实现父母关于谁最适合帮助和建议他们的规范的文化转变，他们还有更多的工作要做。家庭，其次是朋友，仍然被认为是大多数育儿问题可以求助的人，“专家”只提供关于孩子生活中长期制度化领域的实际帮助和建议。研究还表明，父母对父母支持的规范与父母在性别、阶级和种族方面的社会定位差异有关。
Recent years have seen an explicit focus on parenting as a designated area of policy intervention. Parents are posed as in need of education and advice from 'experts', under conditions of social change. This article counterposes norms concerning who parents should turn to for support that government policies aim to inculcate with those held by parents themselves, drawing on a national representative sample of,parents of 8-12 year old children. It uses a 'consensus baseline' approach to look at parents' perceptions of social change in parenting support, and whether or not they hold norms concerning whom to turn to and for what sort of help in parenting: practical, emotional, behaviour, health and education. Our results indicate that policy-makers have more work to do if they want to achieve a cultural step-change in norms held by parents about who is best placed to help and advice them. Family, followed by friends, are (still) regarded as the people to turn to for most childrearing issues, with 'experts' only providing practical help and advice about long institutionalised areas of children's lives. We also show that norms about parenting support are related to parents' differential social positioning regarding gender, class and ethnicity.