Research on parents' child-rearing goals shows that american parents tend to value highly as a quality they wish to promote in their children. independence conformity dependence tradition

Parents seek to raise their children to eventually become free, independent, self-reliant, and self-sufficient adults who can stand on their own feet and live their own lives. As human beings, we hope and plan for this eventuality because we know that freedom is a condition of humankind. It enables us to be ourselves and to develop a sense of self also vital to the concepts of being human and being an individual. Parents engage in their most effective childrearing when they themselves have a good grasp of the concept of look at primitive humans and their initial inability to create fire. Since they did not know the process of fire creation, nor even its necessity, they found themselves at the mercy of their conditions. If they felt cold in the middle of the night, they covered themselves with skins and waited for the sun to rise and warm them. While they might accidentally create fire at first, they did not enjoy the freedom that fire creation would provide to them