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  2. Single-parent children and educational attainment - Wikipedia

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    The results of research can be used to help create social policies and support initiatives that are specifically suited to difficulties single parents and their children experience. A child's educational outcomes can be better understood by looking into family dynamics, parental involvement, and support networks.

  3. Parenting - Wikipedia

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    Trustful parenting is a child-centered parenting style in which parents trust their children to make decisions, play and explore on their own, and learn from their own mistakes. Research professor Peter Gray argues that trustful parenting was the dominant parenting style in prehistoric hunter-gatherer societies.

  4. Parenting styles - Wikipedia

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    Father and children reading. According to a literature review by Christopher Spera (2005), Darling and Steinberg (1993) suggest that it is important to better understand the differences between parenting styles and parenting practices: "Parenting practices are defined as specific behaviors that parents use to socialize their children", while parenting style is "the emotional climate in which ...

  5. Concerted cultivation - Wikipedia

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    Another difference is the involvement parents have in their children's lives. Parents are much more involved in following their children's academic progression. Through this process children from a concerted cultivation upbringing supposedly feel more entitled in their academic endeavors and will feel more responsible because they know that ...

  6. Sex differences in education - Wikipedia

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    Parents may spend differently based on gender of their children which is an unequal treatment. Shaleen Khanal studied the expenditure people spent on girls and boys in Nepal. Based on his research, he found that parents spend in education expenditure, compared to boys, is 20% less on girls which is very unequal. [57]

  7. Parent–teacher association - Wikipedia

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    Government education schemes such as Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan (RMSA) and Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) have advocated for community mobilization and involvement. . RMSA dictates that every school should have a PTA, School Development Management Committees (SDMCs) should co-exist with PTAs and leverage their functions, PTAs should conduct meetings at least once a month and present ...

  8. Gender roles in childhood - Wikipedia

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    Parents decorate children's rooms differently to express their idea of what the child's gender will be/ are, boys' rooms have cars, sports equipment, and girls have dolls, multi-colored clothing and lots of pink. [8] The stereotyping of a child begins before they are born and goes on their whole life. [8]

  9. Tiger parenting - Wikipedia

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    Tiger parenting is a form of strict parenting, whereby parents are highly invested in ensuring their children's success. Specifically, tiger parents push their children to attain high levels of academic achievement or success in high-status extracurricular activities such as music or sports. [1]