Raising Methods Of Children:

I intend to point out the varied methods of child rearing that are present in African cultures and how they differ in accordance to their adult perceptions of family. The point of the article is to describe the methods of child rearing, where hunters and gatherers in order to survive must constantly move and collect sustenance making it less advantageous to continuously care and raise the child, often it is the job of nature to do so. However, in the case of agricultural cultures/societies the priorities lie on the raising and nurturing of the child, teaching it the methods of farming, love, so on so forth. The mother in the Gusii tribe, for instance, will be constantly available for the child for emotional support along with many other types of support . where as the father would tend to the other needs to keep the society alive; EX: Farming, hunting... Which leads to another key point in their culture where the mother would be in their own home and the father would fluctuate and go live from one house to the next. Proving that the mother will spend all her time and energy on the child, until he/she reaches independence and starts his/her own role in society. The Author attempts to argue that the mother plays a key role in the development of the child and the roles women play in the Gusii tribe are incredibly important to the well-being of their society. Furthermore, arguing that the methods of child rearing are significantly different as modernization begins. A key fact Marida Hollos brings up is the family structure of the Gusii tribe, "the head male of the household(father), many wives, unmarried sons, married sons and their wives and children", and although the dynamic has a male as the head member the idea is that the children have many people helping in their upbringing and constant sustenance via the male members of the group providing for the children's physical health and the emotional well-being provided by the mother.

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