Parenting and inequality in insecure times. A comment to the symposium

• Main Author: RAO, Aliya Hamid
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2018
• Subjects: Social class; gender; parenting; inequality; uncertainty; Family, Life Course, and Society; Inequality and Stratification
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/2827; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/4084/viewcontent/Rao_SocioLogica.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

This comment highlights how high income inequality and economic uncertainty produce new dimensions to intensive parenting amongst the middle-class. Parenting practices encourage children’sdevelopment of behaviors and values which are coveted in élite professions. Amongst the advantaged,these parenti...