Children's Perceptions of Adult Role Assignment: Father-Absence, Class, Race and Sex influences.

Aldous, Joan

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Publication Date: 1972

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Children's Perceptions of Adult Role Assignment: Father-Absence, Class, Race and Sex influences

Aldous, Joan

Journal of Marriage and the Family, 34, 1, 55-64, Feb 72

Despite contradictions in their own family experience to the customary adult division of labor, neither father absent nor lower class Ss displayed consistent differences from father present or middle class Ss in their perceptions. The discussion presents implications for programs with low income, preschool children. (Author)

Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Fatherless Family, Parent Child Relationship, Parent Influence, Parent Role, Preschool Children, Role Theory, Sex Differences

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