“Strictness is a Virtue” - Social Determination of Authoritarian Parenting and Political Authoritarianism The Implications for Childrens Rights in Eurasia
Zhussipbek G. Nagayeva Z.
2023Brill Nijhoff
International Journal of Childrens Rights
2023#31Issue 2471 - 499 pp.
Parenting and childrens rights are intimately related. The parenting styles characterised by low responsiveness to childrens needs, including authoritarian-paternalistic and those of neglect, are harmful to childs development and contradict the main principles of childrens rights. The slow development of childrens rights in Kazakhstan and, in general, in the Eurasian1 context, derives from the social norms justifying authoritarian-paternalistic parenting, specifically, the widespread belief that “strictness is a virtue”. This article proposes and discusses the concepts of “social determination of authoritarian parenting” and “social determination of political authoritarianism”. The former concept denotes an embodiment of social norms that shape the parenting styles with low responsiveness to childrens needs, especially authoritarian-paternalistic. The latter suggests that authoritarianism is a product of social and cultural contexts, including parenting. These concepts, being mutually supportive phenomena, create the vicious circle of the persistency of authoritarianism in both politics and in child-rearing.
authoritarian parenting , authoritarianism , childrens rights , Eurasian country , Kazakhstan , parenting styles , paternalism , social determination of authoritarian parenting , social norms
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Department of Social Sciences, Suleyman Demirel University, Kaskelen, Almaty, Kazakhstan
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