I don't think that pegkerr was literally talking about fathers and mothers (at least, that's not what I was agreeing with). It's about the idea of the Authoritarian parental model against the idea of the Nuturing parental model.
This isn't about saying whether or not fathers should protect their children (perhaps it would be clarifying to refrain from using the traditional word 'father' after 'authoritarian', though the authoritarian model is rather hopelessly bound together with patriarchy in many people's minds), but about two different types of techniques that are not limited to gender. Not every father is authoritarian and not every mother is nuturing, certainly.
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Date: 2005-09-05 07:14 pm (UTC)This isn't about saying whether or not fathers should protect their children (perhaps it would be clarifying to refrain from using the traditional word 'father' after 'authoritarian', though the authoritarian model is rather hopelessly bound together with patriarchy in many people's minds), but about two different types of techniques that are not limited to gender. Not every father is authoritarian and not every mother is nuturing, certainly.