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- From: lindsay@sesame.lbl.gov (Lindsay Schachinger)
- Newsgroups: misc.kids
- Subject: Re: Authoritarian Parents (was 20/20 and spanking)
- Date: 16 Nov 1992 19:29:49 GMT
- Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley
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- Message-ID: <27482@dog.ee.lbl.gov>
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- Reply-To: lindsay@sesame.lbl.gov (Lindsay Schachinger)
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- In article <1992Nov16.164048.15233@jetsun.weitek.COM> robert@jetsun.weitek.COM (Robert Plamondon) writes:
- >
- >Here are some hallmarks of authoritarian parents I have known, which
- >may help differentiate them from other kinds:
- >
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- >4. Authoritarian parents get more confused and desperate as their children
- > get older and more independent, as their ability to control (or even
- > influence) their children declines.
- >
-
- I grew up with an authoritarian parent (at least one! :-), and I
- think I would disagree here. My father breathed a great sigh of
- relief when we were no longer dependent on him (that is after we
- graduated from college). I think being an authoritarian parent is
- a great burden (dictators don't really like themselves very
- much), and is driven by anger at their own lack of control in
- being needed so very much by their children. They get freed up,
- too, when their "charges" grow up.
-
- Lindsay
-
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