CHILDREN'S AND PARENTS' ATTITUDES TOWARDS CHILDREN'S RIGHTS AND PERCEPTIONS OF FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS (original) (raw)
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Th e present study investigated the development of autonomy by interviewing 47 ten-to-sixteen year-old adolescents and their parents from three US Midwestern cities about their perceptions of children's rights. Th e fi ndings showed that on average, parents thought that their children would advocate for more rights than their children actually did. Mothers were more likely than fathers to believe that their child would advocate for self-determination rights. Older adolescents used more diverse reasoning categories than younger adolescents in their decision making. Th ere was no age diff erence in the adolescents' support of nurturance and self-determination rights. Parents were generally given authority over moral consideration, but less over conventional and personal conventions. Th e results are discussed in the context of the development of personal autonomy and relatedness.
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To my husband Sean, thank you for stepping up and taking over many of my responsibilities so I had more time to work on my dissertation. Thank you for being my rock and my safe place. To my parents, Jamie and Terri Guidry, thank you for keeping the kids, encouraging me, and teaching me to follow my dreams. You never stopped believing in me. Dr. Jennifer Putnam, my dissertation chair, thank you for your encouragement, feedback, and unwavering support. Thank you for pushing me to be my best self and for always helping me find a way. Dr. Sydney Brown, thank you for encouraging me to apply to the program regardless of the obstacles I faced. I appreciated your feedback, questions, and dedication to my success. Dr. Mitch Porter, thank you for being so wonderful with statistics! I appreciate your willingness to join me in this journey and teach me how to create concise statistical analysis. I most definitely could not have done this without you! To my cohort, who is now family, we made it! Each of you played a strategic part in my journey, and I am grateful for our relationships. To my friends who listened to the complaints and kept pushing me to go on. To my colleagues who sacrificed their time to help me complete my coursework projects, I could never thank you enough. Last, but not least, thank you to my girls, Veronica and Bianca. I love you more than life itself, and you unknowingly sacrificed so much over the last 3 years. You were the main reason I kept pushing on. Thank you for doing your "homework" with me while I typed on weekends and understanding when I could not partake in certain activities. I became a better person because of you.
Adolescents' and Mothers' Understanding of Children's Rights in the Home
Journal of Research on Adolescence, 2002
Adolescents' and mothers' understanding of children's self-determination and nurturance rights was examined in the context of the home. In individual interviews, 141 sixth, eighth, and tenth graders and their mothers responded to hypothetical vignettes in which a child story character wished to exercise a right that conflicted with parental practices. For each vignette, participants were asked to judge whether the story character should have the right in question and to provide a justification for their decision. Generally, eighth and tenth graders were more likely than their mothers to endorse requests for self-determination and less likely than their mothers to support requests for nurturance. Mothers of tenth graders were more likely to support requests for self-determination and less likely to favor adolescents' request for nurturance in the home than were mothers of sixth and eighth graders. In terms of reasoning, adolescents and mothers were more likely to consider the individuals' rights when discussing self-determination situations, whereas nurturance situations elicited responses pertaining to participants' understanding of familial roles and relationships. Furthermore, mothers' reasoning about childrenÃs rights reflected sensitivity to the developmental level of their children. The findings are discussed in terms of previous research on the development of children's understanding of rights and adolescent autonomy.
Attitudes toward Children's Rights: Nurturance or Self-Determination?
Journal of Social Issues, 1978
This article describes the development of a classification schema consisting of two conceptual orientations toward the rights of children (nurturance and self-determination) which cut across five different content areas. An attitudinal scale based on this schema was administered to 381 individuals representing both sexes and four different groups: high school students, undergraduate education majors, other undergraduates, and adults. High school students held significantly more positive attitudes toward the extension of self-determination rights and significantly less positive attitudes toward the extension of nurturant rights to children than any other group. In addition, differences by sex were obtained toward extending nurturant rights, with females holding significantly more positive attitudes than males. Overall, respondents evidenced more positive attitudes toward the extension of nurturant than of self-determination rights.
within Multigenerational Families
2009
to thank for cheering me on and giving me all the help that I needed. Last but not least, my deepest gratitude goes to my parents and my family for their extreme understanding, unfailing patience, and tremendous support throughout my studies. I thank my father, Chiang Chua Meng, and my mother, Chung Ee Tai, for believing in education when they had none almost. I also thank my in-laws, my sisters and brother for always being there when I needed help. I would like to express my wholehearted appreciation for my husband, Wan Loong, for his unconditional support. The strength of his words of encouragement pulled me through my most desperate moments. And to my two-year old daughter, Cheuk Yu, for being such a good girl when mama went missing from home.
2016
My guiding light throughout this whole process, especially at the beginning, but all the way through, was my angel daughter, Alannah Chemay Sadler, forever 13. Her twin, Elissa Menendez, and her older sister, Tatiana Sadler, were my rock for the entire seven years. While I barely spoke to them, they cooked, cleaned, and ran errands so I could sit at my computer and type. It was much harder, in that aspect, to earn my Master's Degree as a single mom with three children under six, but they certainly made up for it as adult children. I want to also acknowledge my sister, Nancy Goss, who passed away six months before my daughter, and my father, Jose Antonio Menendez, who passed away years after the car accident we were all in that took my daughter. I want to thank my mother, Gloria Menendez, who, along with my father, never questioned this crazy idea I had of earning a doctorate at my age, my sister, Marilyn Menendez, and my brother, Nicholas Menendez, who supported me emotionally all the way. I know my brother, Tony Menendez, had me in his thoughts also. I also must thank Dr. Dwight Thompson, whom I met as part of my cohort on the first day and gave me the sign that I should do this. He was the first music teacher for all my daughters and since then my twinless twin daughter has gone on to be a professional musician. He was there for me all the way through. I was also completing this degree to help my remaining two daughters through college. They graduated and I was still a student years later. Finally, I want to thank my dissertation chair, Dr. Mary Clisbee, for all her support and knowledge that I so desperately needed throughout this journey, along with my committee member, Dr. Kathleen Kardaras. They did not know how much reading they would have to do. I also had help from Dr. Silvia Orta for inspiration when I needed it most. And last, I want to thank all of my cohort and the exceptional participants, whom I love, who made this possible.
2019
for his undying love, support, and belief in me throughout this ubiquitous endeavor. I offer my sincerest appreciation for your continuous understanding, patience and inspiration. You gave me the confidence to persist in reaching my goal. To my daughter, Amber, and my son, Justin, thank you for all your love, support, and encouragement during my doctoral journey. You both have inspired me with your determination, desire, and strength to continue to pursue your own goals. To my parents, Donald H. and Micaela McAllister, my heartfelt thanks for your unconditional love and support. I am ever grateful for the many lessons you taught me during my youth, and for instilling in me the belief that I can achieve anything I want through hard work and determination. I would also like to thank my sister, Mary M. Parsons, who provided me with the inspiration and impetus to become an educator in the first place. I would never have headed down this road without your unwavering belief and support. I also would like to express my sincerest appreciation to my dear friend, Sandra Verdugo, who planted the seed for this doctoral journey just after completing our Masters degree. To all my extended family and friends who have endured my absences at all the family gatherings and special occasions, I am grateful for your compassion and understanding. To the Brandman University staff, I offer my sincerest gratitude for the many challenges placed before me during my coursework that led to great personal v growth in understanding and practical leadership skill. To my cohort members, you are all awesome and an inspiration to me! I never would have made it through this journey without your support! To Dr. Katherine Frazier, my cohort mentor, I want to acknowledge in a special way the sincerely appreciated guidance and leadership you gave me. I only wish you could have seen me finally finish. Finally, I'd like to convey my sincerest appreciation to my dissertation committee. Dr. Walt Buster, it has been an honor to work with you on this dissertation. Your guidance and support turned this faroff, unattainable dream of mine into a reality. Your passion and desire to help others achieve their goals is truly inspiring. I have been truly blessed by you. I sincerely hope that, one day, I can do the same for others. Dr. Jim Cox, you have grounded me with your sense of humor, constant encouragement and unconditional support. I'm so grateful for all the pushes and nudges you gave to keep me moving forward. You truly helped me keep my eye on the hat! Dr. Jody Graf, you have inspired and encouraged me with your enthusiasm for my topic. Our very first conversation resonates as a source of light at the end of the tunnel along this dissertation journey. I cannot express enough my sincerest gratitude to all of you for sticking with me to the very end.
Children as Research Participants
2003
I would like to first thank my advisor, Dr. Jan Susina, for his unending inspiration and advice he has given me throughout not only the production of this thesis but also my years in ISU as a graduate student. His genuine enthusiasm in children's literature will continue to inspire me in the rest of my academic career. Dr. Susina's devotion to his work has always motivated me to become a scholar who retain the wonder and passion of a beginner as one acquires the skills and knowledge of an expert. I would also like to thank Dr. Cynthia Huff with my genuinely grateful heart. I had the honor of working with Dr. Huff through her last year at ISU and I will never forget what it means to witness other people's life stories and tell the stories of my own through writing. Dr. Huff shaped me into a life writer that I am today, and I am forever indebted to her for supporting me to summon my own demons of my life and watch them transform into stories that touch other people's hearts. I will continue to write my life stories and, Dr. Huff, your supportive voice will always resonate in my heart during the moments of my selfdoubt. I would also like to thank Dr. Mary Moran and Dr. Karen Coats. They were not in my committee, but I would not have been where I am today without their consistent care and support that helped me throughout my years at ISU as a master's student. My thesis is much about the subject of family. Thus, I would like to now express my gratitude to my family that I was born into in South Korea. We have been through many different chapters of our story, and I am happy that our recent chapters have been much about love. Also, thank you to the family I chose here at ISU: Ann Borow, Grace Chipperfield, Heather Sanford, Shane Combs, Thelma Trujillo, and Zeph Webster. Wherever I am, it is certainly amazing and ii humbling to feel belonged. Because you made me feel belonged, I get to be who I am: a happy, positive, grateful, inquisitive, and caring person that I strive to be every day and I am forever indebted to you to make me want to be a good person. And last, but certainly not least, thank you to Gregory Crask who shows up to my life everyday no matter what, and fills my life with laughter and love.