Families for our times March 2007
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Factors shaping educational outcomes child’s characteristics family characteristics parental involvement school quality community peer group family support services
Good parenting at home authoritative not authoritarian conversation/discussion confers respect values attitudes
Effects of parents/effect of schools achievement parents / school effects age / 0.05 age / 0.21 age / 0.51 from Sacker et al (2002)
Barriers to parental involvement extreme poverty and social chaos substance abuse depression the difficult child lack of confidence or knowledge alternative values barriers set up by schools
Dynamics of families parents are human parents do not run families children are significant players
Charles Desforges