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The study also found that the lower the teens household income and education level, the .
worse they rated their own health. More then three quarters of teens in the highest .
income households reported very good or excellent income.
The family is by far the most significant agent of socialization. The family .
maintains the major responsibility for socializing the child during those first critical .
years of life. Here the child gains a sense of self, learns language and begins to .
understand norms of interaction with parents, siblings, and significant others in his or her .
life. Parents hold such different expectations for their sons and daughters. Sons are .
expected to be strong, firm and alert but daughters are expected to be delicate and soft. .
The activities that girls stage at early ages like playing with dolls and playing house, .
thereby assume a caretaking, domestic role. According to social learning theory, .
infants receive reinforcement for behaviour that is gender appropriate. In a study of first .
born infants and their mothers, Moss (1967) demonstrates that irritability is a signal for .
mothers to attend to their babies, and since boys are likely to be more irritable then girls, .
boys get more overall stimulation. There are clear differences between men and women .
in role expectations concerning child rearing. Mothers assume caretaking roles, while .
later on girls carry on the same roles from watching their mothers. Children have been .
socialized in such a way that they are expected to act and behave a certain way according .
to their gender. "Men and women make their own history but they do not make it under .
their own circumstances, but under circumstances directly encountered, given and .
transmitted from the past". (-----). Modelling of same sex individuals is also an important .
characteristic for gender development. Children learn about male and female sex role .
behaviour through observational learning.
