title: Sex-role patterns, paternal rearing attitudes and child development in different social classes.
abstract: Sex-role patterns, the father's rearing attitude and the child's intellectual and emotional development in different social classes were studied in a randomly selected sample of 58 Swedish unbroken families of a small child. Working class men and women married younger and the women were more often house-wives. Working class men had more often been reared in an "authoritarian" way and more often reared their children in the same way. Upper middle class men had taken a more active part in the care of the child. Working class children scored lower on the intelligence tests, especially the verbal ones and were more often estimated as socially immature.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002657:Child Development; D002668:Child Rearing; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004644:Emotions; D005219:Father-Child Relations; D005260:Female; D005783:Gender Identity; D006801:Humans; D007062:Identification, Psychological; D007360:Intelligence; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012923:Social Class; D013548:Sweden