In the article, Child-Rearing in England and the United States: A Cross-National Comparison written by, Edward C. Devereux, Urie Bronfenbrenner and Robert R. Rodgers a comparison was made between 741 English children with those of 968 American children, all who are six years old who are asked questions about their parents child rearing techniques. Americans who have gone to England have said that the children their aren’t so “childlike” instead they discuss that, “English Children, though admittedly well mannered, seemed strangely unresponsive, and unchildlike and “repressed”” (Brofenbrenner, Devereux, Rodgers, 1969) American tourists state, “Americans adore children who are friendly, talkative, and outgoing,” and then went on saying, “The English adore children, too, as long as they are quiet, polite, clean and don’t interrupt.” English children are like this because when they turn a certain age they are shipped off to boarding school and when they return for the holidays they are described as being “visibly tamed and improved.” This being said English parents are not described as being warm loving individuals they strive for structured and well-mannered kids. The article then takes the view of an English visitor who describes American children as, “undisciplined, and rude, and worst of all, don’t know their place, which is to be silent and respectful in the presence of adults until the minimum of civilities are done with, then to vanish to a separate world of childhood.” The authors then go on to explain that American children are not undisciplined but rather full of
In the article, Child-Rearing in England and the United States: A Cross-National Comparison written by, Edward C. Devereux, Urie Bronfenbrenner and Robert R. Rodgers a comparison was made between 741 English children with those of 968 American children, all who are six years old who are asked questions about their parents child rearing techniques. Americans who have gone to England have said that the children their aren’t so “childlike” instead they discuss that, “English Children, though admittedly well mannered, seemed strangely unresponsive, and unchildlike and “repressed”” (Brofenbrenner, Devereux, Rodgers, 1969) American tourists state, “Americans adore children who are friendly, talkative, and outgoing,” and then went on saying, “The English adore children, too, as long as they are quiet, polite, clean and don’t interrupt.” English children are like this because when they turn a certain age they are shipped off to boarding school and when they return for the holidays they are described as being “visibly tamed and improved.” This being said English parents are not described as being warm loving individuals they strive for structured and well-mannered kids. The article then takes the view of an English visitor who describes American children as, “undisciplined, and rude, and worst of all, don’t know their place, which is to be silent and respectful in the presence of adults until the minimum of civilities are done with, then to vanish to a separate world of childhood.” The authors then go on to explain that American children are not undisciplined but rather full of