SOCSCI 2CC3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Male Privilege
13 Feb 2019
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According to researchers, parents may consciously and unconsciously influence the behaviour their children acquire. Researchers have studies on how newborns and their parents bond. They conclude that children may be treated differently because they stimulate their parents differently. Baby girls elicit more verbal interaction by using the small muscles around their mouths more frequently. The parents think their baby girl is smiling or trying to vocalize. As a result, the child is held close to the parent s chest as they look down at their baby girl. Baby boys tend to sleep less than baby girls and become more irritable, wiggling and waving their arms and legs. Baby boys are held more because parents try to soothe their child. As toddlers, baby boys are more boisterous than girls when playing and parents tend to interrupt boys more often to quiet down while playing. This could be related to how they are treated as newborns.
