RETROSPECTIVE PERCEPTIONS OF PARENTS CHILD-REARING CONDUCT BY SAME-SEX SIBLING TRIOS IN AFRICAN-AMERICAN AND EUROPEAN-AMERICAN FAMILIES

Adult (M = 33 years) trios of 20 sisters and 6 brothers from 15 Africa n American and 11 European American intact families retrospectively de scribed their parents' child-rearing conduct on the Parent-Child Relat ions Questionnaire II (Siegelman & Roe, 1979). Respondents' mean educa tion (15.1 years) and family size exceeded U.S. averages. Fitting cult ural stereotypes, mothers were depicted as more loving, more attentive , and less rejecting than fathers. African American parents were descr ibed as more demanding and less lenient than European American parents , although this finding was confounded with the latter's greater educa tion (M = 14.4 years vs. 10.9 years). Daughter trios tended to differ more than son trios on their ratings of each parent, suggesting that d aughters may be more attentive to intrafamilial events. The uniqueness of the sample and the small number of brother trios limit the general izabilty of these findings.