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Post by sharon on Feb 27, 2012 14:02:27 GMT -6
Found this in the book I'm reading (Pink Brain Blue Brain):
"Are parents responsible for the sex difference in preschoolers' interest in babies? The issue has been studied by Judith Blackmore - a psychologist at Indiana University - Purdue University Fort Wayne. Although her research revealed no difference in the amount of praise mothers bestow on sons and daughters for lovingly attending to baby siblings, it did find that children from more traditional homes - those whose parents subscribed to more stereotyped gender roles - show a greater sex difference in nurturing behavior than those in more egalitarian homes. In fact, four-year-old boys with more egalitarian parents were virtually indistinguishable from girls of the same age in the amount of interest they demonstrated toward babies. So this research suggests that parents' actions (role modeling) speaks louder than our words (praise or disapproval) in shaping children's nurturing behavior."
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Post by sharon on Feb 27, 2012 23:23:13 GMT -6
I thought this was so interesting, and also could be an explanation as to why kids with two moms or two dads tend to have a wider range of behaviors and tend to be less limited by stereotypes.
It also made me wonder about the dads. They measured that amount of praise mothers bestowed, but there is no mention of fathers. I wonder if there would be a difference there.
Just one study, but I did find it interesting.
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