Page No.16-23
Neeti Sachdeva and Girishwar Misra
Jesus and Mary College, University of Delhi, Delhi University of Delhi, Delhi
In recent years there has been a growing concern amongst the researchers
about parenting because it’s ideas not only shape the parents’ self-concepts
but also influence the parents’ behaviors and affect the development of child.
Now the implications of social ecology of child development including the setting,
customs, and practices of childcare are being taken up more seriously. They
are diverse and multifaceted and are determined by a variety of factors including
personal, contextual, and cultural ones. The ideas about parenting contribute to
the continuity of the cultural pattern by transmitting information from one
generation to the other. It is being realized that any comprehensive understanding
of the dynamics of human development does require attention of the variation in
parenting across cultures