THE FAMILY IN EAST AND WEST-BERLIN - PEDA GOGICAL ATTITUDES AND FRIENDSHIP AMONG CHILDREN

In the GDR, the family rated at least as high, if not higher as to its importance in everyday life than in the FRG. On the basis of data col lected shortly after the breakdown of the GDR, the authors compare the family-centeredness of families from East and West Berlin with childr en of primary-school-age by examining parental pedagogical attitudes w ith regard to friendship among children. Although parents from East Be rlin exert greater control than parents from West Berlin, the integrat ion of children from East Berlin into the extrafamilial world of their peers is not impeded. Thus, families from East Berlin do not appear t o be more domestic in orientation than their West Berlin counterparts.