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ERIC Number: EJ533043
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1996
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Reference Count: 0
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ISSN: ISSN-0300-4430
African Men and Women as Parents: Equal but Different?
Akande, Adebowale
Early Child Development and Care, v125 p53-58 Nov 1996
Illustrates the important roles that fathers and mothers play in helping the family to connect and in encouraging their children's autonomy. Claims that fathers have the same physiological response to an infant's cry and go through the same sequence of earliest parental behaviors as mothers. Concludes that there is no biological imperative requiring the inflexible parental roles. (MOK)
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Rearing, Children, Cultural Context, Family Structure, Fathers, Mothers, Parent Child Relationship, Parent Role, Play, Sex Differences, Sex Role, Sex Stereotypes
Publication Type: Opinion Papers; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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Authoring Institution: N/A
Identifiers: Africans