Original scientific paper
COMPARISON OF PARENTS' ATTITUDES FROM COMPLETE FAMILIES AND SINGLE- PARENT FAMILIES ACCORDING TO THE DESIRABILITY OF CHARACTERISTICS FOR BOYS AND GIRLS
Dubravka Maleš
; Faculty of Philosophy, Zagreb
Abstract
The contemporary world is faced with an ever greater number of
divorced families. Divorce is stressful for all the family members,
for children as well as aduits, and the adjustment to the new
conditions occurs slowly, either with few or many problems.
Disappointment with the partner and failure in marriage can have
negative bearing on the attitudes of individuals towards members
of the opposite sex, but also towards ons's own role in the
marriage and family. In this work the author presents the results of
research the aim of which was to compare the attitudes of parents
from complete families and families with a single parent according
to the desirability of characteristics for boys, Le. girls. The findings
indicate that life in a one-parent family can influence parents'
attitudes towards the desirability of characteristics for one sex,
although the differences extracted are not great. It cannot be said
that parents from single-parent families are more prone to stereotypes
of sexual roles. Stressing the importance of particularcharacteristics
is the result of negative experience and of the creation
of an "idealized" image of members of the opposite sexes.
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Hrčak ID:
32355
URI
Publication date:
1.7.1995.
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