Thesis
Purposeful parents: Attachment parenting, "natural partenting" and Real practice in a contemporary U.S. parenting club in the Inland Pacific Northwest
Washington State University
Master of Arts (MA), Washington State University
2012
Handle:
https://hdl.handle.net/2376/100495
Abstract
This paper investigates the childrearing decisions of a group of parents in a small Inland Northwest town. The parents interviewed for this paper are members of a casual parenting support group called the Parents Club and are all white, an average of six years older than the U.S. age at birth of first child, mainly middle-class and have a high level of formal education. The Parents Club interviewees all practice many aspects of Attachment Parenting, a parenting philosophy developed using Attachment Theory from psychology. This group of parents was found to be heavily influenced by the principles of Attachment Theory, the social forces of modernity, and American cultural values. While the parenting practices of these interviewees are somewhat divergent from mainstream parenting in the U.S., the underlying values that drive their practices are in line with mainstream U.S. values such as independence, achievement, and happiness.
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Details
- Title
- Purposeful parents
- Creators
- Emily Rene Stender Casillas
- Contributors
- Jeannette Marie Mageo (Degree Supervisor)
- Awarding Institution
- Washington State University
- Academic Unit
- Anthropology, Department of
- Theses and Dissertations
- Master of Arts (MA), Washington State University
- Publisher
- Washington State University; Pullman, Wash. :
- Identifiers
- 99900525285901842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Thesis