How We Raise Our Daughters and Sons : Child Rearing and Gender Socialization in the Philippines

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A number of researchers looked and gathered evidence of differences in the way how boys and girls are raised in their families. Child-rearing practices and gender socialization is related in this topic in order to describe child-rearing attitudes, beliefs, expectations and practices from early childhood to late adolescence which demonstrate explicit and implicit differential socialization for sons and daughters. Each topic had their own research and survey to have a great result. And as we all know, there is a big difference between the sons and the daughters on how they were preferred in their families. But most of the complements are given to the daughters, because daughters are very important, even among the elderly who really hoped that they will lived with their children and they rather choose to live with daughters than sons. And when it comes into the value, daughters are still in the upper side than sons it is because of the qualities of personality or behaviour she may have and also the fun, happiness, and even the companionship she can provide. In the other hand, sons are also important, and sometimes they are chosen to be more preferred than daughters. But this preference are only expressed strongly by fathers. In fact, sons are contributing more on their physical strength and endurance while daughters are expected to be more on the emotional-consciousness. Having expectation is already in the parents, especially on how they will raise their children based on their sex-typed. Regardless of their children’s gender, they hope that their children will grow up humble, considerate, hardworking, and courteous. Some traits have been idealized for female children like industry, thrift, modesty, obedience and love for home. While for the male children are being morality, modernity and being able to get along

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