GRANDMOTHERS AND MOTHERS - AN INTERGENERATIONAL COMPARISON OF CHILD-REARING PRACTICES WITH PRESCHOOLERS

Changes towards modernity in attitudes and behaviours in child-rearing . come slowly. Stresses may arise in families when the developmental u nderstandings of grandparents and parents lead to incompatible beliefs and practices. This research used in-depth personal and separate inte rviews with 126 subjects, grandmothers and their grown daughters, to a scertain domains of congruence and of disparity in the child-rearing a ttitudes and techniques reported by each respondent. Greater awareness of areas where grandparents and parents agree and where they differ c an lead to more efforts to understand each other's viewpoints and to r econcile differences which otherwise might lead to feelings of alienat ion or rejection between family members from different generations.