Moral upbringing of children in the modern family: Reproduction of gender asymmetries

Abstract

The article is dedicated to an urgent problem of reproducing gender asymmetry in moral upbringing of young generation in Russian families. The research problem is to determine factors affecting the difference in involvement of mothers and fathers into moral upbringing of children of various ages. A practical research conducted in 2018 among the parents with experience of upbringing children at ages ranging from newborn to adolescent. The survey included 232 women and 96 men living in full families with children at the age between 11 and 14 years. 12 mothers and 8 fathers participated in an in-depth interview. The results showed that starting from pre-school age and up to adolescence the mothers had the leading role in development of such traits as mercy, proudness, sense of duty, self-control, self-confidence in children. Men were more involved in development of will, conscience, responsibility, patriotism. The main conclusion is that it is necessary to spread among the parents the modern view on particular features of process of moral upbringing at different stages of growing up. It is important to teach the parents methods and techniques how to use joint effort to transfer to their children the moral principles based on mutual assistance and caring about people. © 2019 LLC Ecological Help. All rights reserved.