... between the sexes. Along the way, she mentions ways that our Western culture and Samoan culture are similar and different having to do with child rearing, general behaviors of youths and adults, and sexual issues. Mead found the Samoan culture to contain much more freedom than our own culture. ... 2001; 20). The boys are given a chance probably based on their physical strength, which can be more productive to the community than the practice of child rearing or any of the other "girls"" tasks. The boys are taught early that they have the opportunity to play a higher, more prestigious rol...

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... How different this is from the way that Westerners typically treat their children. It is unlikely that a Western child at the age of six or seven would be given the responsibility of rearing a younger child. We tend to give these types of responsibilities to a young adult preparing to enter into adulthood. At ... and are not treated as lightly as the Samoans traditionally do. Where the viewing and knowledge of sexual acts are very common to the young Samoan child, children are also very accustomed to birth, death, seeing dead bodies, and even watching miscarriages. Samoan children are se...

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... were able to communicate very well with their children. Adults who disagreed strongly with each other on a great many issues were able to cooperate in the care of the children. Child-rearing issues were not a source of disagreement for over one-third of the parents. Onehalf of the children experienced relatively consistent handling by both parents. We were sometimes surprised to find ... general. Conversely, where the divorce is unplanned, undertaken impulsively, pursued in anger or guilt over fancied or real misdeeds, or where the divorce coincides with other unrelated family crises, t...

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" Since societies, cultures and indeed families differ or change over time, concepts of children, childhood and the ensuing child rearing practices and expectations of children differ and change accordingly" (Taylor and Woods, 1998, p.6) This essay aims to ... comprising changing patterns of behaviour based on relatively more stable value systems. "Within any one culture, any one person's ideas of what childhood and a child are may vary according to their class, their gender, their ethnicity, and, of course, their own experiences and inclinations" (Oates, 1994, p.3). The ... their children at ...

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