SOCI 200gm Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Concerted Cultivation, Child Abuse, Jed Rubenfeld
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In recent years, the child-rearing known as tiger mom parenting has become a controversial yet popular topic among educators and many non caucasian, or caucasian parents. The tiger mom term and style appear to have originated when amy chua, a yale. Law professor, wrote the book, battle hymn of the tiger mother, in order to describe the effectiveness of strict chinese parenting or parenting relatively similar to it. While, on the contrary to the tiger mom style, the more laxed western or european style of child- rearing were labeled as less effective. Next, she laid out the punishment for when these requirements were disobeyed, which involved a parenting style that seemed to appear closely similar to child abuse in the opinion of most. For instance, when her daughter, louisa, refused to continue practicing a piece, chua forced louisa back onto the piano, and threatened to take away louisa"s doll house.
