There are also a few reasons as to why boys don’t tend to do so well in education. One reason is the feminisation of education. Sewell argues that as primary schools are female dominated this puts boys off education as they see learning as being feminine. Another reason could be due to their poorer literacy skills. Parents tend to spend less time reading with their sons, and the mother is usually the reader which makes boys think that reading is feminine.
So there is less women committing crimes than men showing a gender difference in crime. Also there is the sex-role theory which has multiple parts to it. One part is socialisation which talks about how girls are socialized differently to boys at young ages. Parsons talked about how girls have clear role models in their mothers, compared to boys. A longitudinal study by Farrington and Painter into female offenders showed that they have poor or erratic parenting which meant that they did not get the right socialisation from their mothers which could have led to this crime being committed, showing a gender difference in crime.
Bussey came to this conclusion when he found that children imitate same sex models but do not imitate same sex models that are gender inappropriate. Gender roles are also affected by social influences like parents. Parents sometimes have strong opinions on the divides between genders which results in different reinforcements for different behaviours. For example, a mother may react negatively to their daughter playing with masculine toys but positively to their son playing with the same toys. Parental influence has strengths, for example there is a wealth of scientific evidence supporting it.
Would children continue to favor the more attractive informant even when they know that both informants were reliable in the past. I believe that kids regardless of ugly or cute would choose the person who they feel the most comfortable with or more familiar with just as with a new born coming into the world the people they are surrounded by they will be most comfortable with compared to a stranger trying to hold them they will cry because they are not familiar with them. 3. Another discussion is whether children would continue favoring the more attractive informant even when they have evidence that the more attractive informant is unreliable and the less attractive informant is a reliable informant. With this question i am unsure because i haven't herd of of any research going on with this so i dint believe i can have a(n) answer.
Therefore, psychological adjustment encompasses not only the child’s overt displays of behaviour but also the quality of peer relationships and degree of stigmatization experienced by children as well as their inner psychological health, for example, self-esteem and overall mental health (Crowl et al., 2008). Reservations concerning the well-being of children of lesbian or gay parents arise because of the worry that children will be exposed to prejudice because of their family constellation and that this will make them more vulnerable to emotional distress and low self-esteem (Tasker, 2005). Generally, the findings have shown that psychological adjustment does not differ in children raised by same-sex or heterosexual parents. For example, examination of the psychosocial adjustment of children conceived via donor insemination by lesbian and heterosexual mothers demonstrated that children were developing in normal fashion, and that their adjustment was unrelated to their parent’s orientation. Rather, the parent’s self- reported relationship satisfaction was significantly correlated with the child’s well-being (Chan, Raboy & Patterson, 1998).
Can parts of gender stereotype be biological? Can we link this to how children develop the ability to communicate and how they use it at a young age? There are many researchers discussing whether language acquisition between men and women are indeed different and many believe that its caused by gender bias among our society. The general concept is that we are not born with gender, but that gender is something we perform or learn to do. However, there is evidence to show that even at a young age, boys and girls that learn how to communicate, will learn at different speeds and will struggle with different aspects of learning how to communicate.
What is more, the fact that boys and girls learn differently is not supported by scientific evidence. If students of both genders aren’t exposed to each other during their education, they won’t know how to deal with each other when they need it most. Single sex supporters also argue that students educated along with the other gender may become more interested in the opinions of the opposite gender than
Despite these challenges, researchers have uncovered convincing links between parenting styles and the effects these styles have on children. During the early 1960s, psychologist Diana Baumrind conducted a study on more than 100 preschool-age children (Baumrind, 1967). Using naturalistic observation, parental interviews and other research methods, she identified four important dimensions of parenting: Disciplinary strategies, Warmth and nurturance, Communication styles and Expectations of maturity and control. Based on these dimensions, Baumrind suggested that the majority of parents display one of three different parenting styles (Maccoby & Martin, 1983) which I myself tried to analyze by observing parent-child relationship at a park. I was at The Prospect Park last week and was observing some parents and their children’s behavior and was really surprised to see a situation, of a 5-6 years old boy and his mother, which I am going to explain in details in this paper.
Evaluation of: Facial Diversity and Infant Preferences for Attractive Faces. By Judith H. Langlois , Jean M. Ritter, Lorri A. Roggman and Lesley S. Vaughn Background: * Other recent studies have reported that infants visually discriminate among adult female faces based on the adult-judged attractiveness. They also show that infants exhibit both visual and behavioural preferences for attractive over unattractive female faces. (Langlois et al., 1987; Langlois, Roggman, & Rieser-Danner, 1990) * These results were considered surprising because infants were not expected to able to distinguish what is attractive and what is unattractive. * In addition, the most common assumption made about preferences for attractiveness is that it is learned gradually through exposure to the culture, media and the standards of attractiveness prevalent in the society.
Pros and Cons of Coeducation One of the most important decisions a parent can make is where to send her child to school. Among the many decisions (which include school location versus offered programs, and public versus private), there is the choice of sending a child to a same-sex or co-ed school. Co-education is the most common type, but it has its advantages and disadvantages. CON: Females Study Better in All-Female Classes * Experts have shown that in many classes, especially in subjects that are considered to be "male domains" like engineering and math, teachers subconsciously give preferential treatment to male students. Female students might receive less attention or less encouragement, and therefore will be less likely to perform as well as the males; it may also force a girl student's attention towards the arts and humanities, even if her real interest lies in the sciences.