Title: (Optional) Describe cultural differences in parenting roles and responsibilities.
Course: Child Development and Parenting (19255-18) > Section: Analyzing Parenting Roles and Responsibilities

Description should include

- reasons different family systems, cultures, and ethnic groups may have different parenting principles and behaviors
- ways parenting principles and behaviors are influenced by factors such as ethnic background, historical changes in child-rearing practices, gender-role expectations, and maternal employment
- parenting principles and behaviors associated with specified family systems, cultures, and/or ethnic groups
- behavioral expectations for children within and among these family systems, cultures, and ethnic groups
- the effects of punishment on child development and parent-child relationship
- positive parenting tools that focus on taking time for training, finding solutions, and avoiding reliance on punishment.

Process/Skill Questions

Thinking

- Why do some families have different expectations of boys and girls? What beliefs lead some families to severely restrict a girl's education and social contact?
- What can happen when cultural or religious beliefs conflict with the parenting practices of the larger community? How do these differences affect children? The parents? The community?

Communication

- How do families communicate their principles and behavioral expectations to children?
- How do you think children respond to child guidance based on cultural and ethnic traditions?

Leadership

- Why are some rules of conduct important for some families but not for others?
- How do cultural differences influence parenting roles?
- What should individuals do to be respectful of cultural parenting practices?

Management

- What information do individuals need to understand the influence of culture and ethnic heritage on behavioral expectations? What are some reliable sources for this information?
- What management skills can help us interact with families of different culture and ethnic heritage?