How Dominant Parents Affect Kids’ Self-Worth

By Published on October 7, 2015

The study of English and Indian families living in Britain is the first to assess the impact on a child’s wellbeing of the household power structures that exist within different cultures.

Psychologists interviewed 125 English and Indian families living in West London.

They found that English children whose mothers displayed more negative parenting traits — such as detachment, intrusiveness, lax enforcement of discipline, and controlling behavior — reported lower self-esteem. But, for Indian children, the father’s behaviour had more of an impact.

In Indian culture, as often characterises more traditional cultures, mothers have inferior positions to fathers, both within and outside the household. Fathers are considered to be the head of the family, in terms of power and their role as disciplinarian. These differences often remain in spite of immigration into Britain.

 

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