Comment: Parenting and Inequality in Insecure Times

Authors

  • Aliya Hamid Rao Singapore Management University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.1971-8853/9086

Keywords:

social class, gender, parenting, inequality, uncertainty

Abstract

This comment highlights how high income inequality and economic uncertainty produce new dimensions to intensive parenting amongst the middle-class. Parenting practices encourage children’s development of behaviors and values which are coveted in élite professions. Amongst the advantaged, these parenting practices encourage neo-traditional family structures as a means of coping with economic uncertainty.

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2018-12-31

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Rao, A. H. (2018). Comment: Parenting and Inequality in Insecure Times. Sociologica, 12(3), 59–65. https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.1971-8853/9086

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