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PARENTAL AUTHORITY AS A DEFENSE TO CHILD RIGHT: A CRITIQUE

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CHAPTER ONE

INTRODUCTION

  1. BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY

There are at least two reasons for the importance of the question of parental authority today. On the one hand, both parents and children increasingly adhere to democratic ideals and negotiated communication within the family context (du Bois-Reymond, Büchner, & Krüger, 1993; du Bois-Reymond, Poel, & Ravesloot, 1998; Solomon, Warin, Langford, & Lewis, 2002).

This is, on the other hand, contrasted by the persistence of more indirect, covert and invisible power asymmetries between parents and children (Brannen, Dodd, Oakley, & Storey 1994; Solomon et al., 2002). As a consequence of this contradiction, parents may, for instance, wonder in what manner and how often authority should be ‘used’ in parenting practices (Schneewind, 1999).

On the whole, the picture is ambiguous (cf. Ashbourne, 2009). Parents’ formal status alone no longer guarantees that their suggestions are followed; they are no longer taken for granted as leading figures by their children.

Instead, parents have to defend and often reclaim their authority anew by, for instance, offering principled justifications of their decisions and guidelines (Giddens, 1992). In general terms, authority, like power, is an essentially relational category.

Authority involves the relationship between at least two parties that “exists when one individual, prompted by his or her circumstances, does as indicated by another individual what he or she would not do in the absence of such indication” (Zambrano, 2001).

Unlike power, which can involve the overcoming of explicit resistance and which is equally relevant to family, parenting and communication research (e.g., Blood & Wolfe, 1960; Cromwell & Olson, 1975; Dunbar, 2004; Hallenbeck, 1966; Rollins & Bahr, 1976; Safilios-Rothschild, 1970; Scanzoni, 1979), authority requires legitimacy (Ule, 1977; KrofliÄ, 1997).

It is “linked to the idea of legitimization, the right to make particular decisions, and to command obedience” (Perelberg, 1990; emphasis added). In contrast to power, authority is stabilised and ‘institutionalised’ by legitimacy, which is “what keeps the relationship from breaking down”, as Zambrano (2001).

  1. STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM

Parental authority has been defined as the “subjective perception that parents have abilities or competencies to exercise influence but may or may not actually enact this potential.

Parents in their level of involvement are associated with social class, poverty, health, and also with parental perception of their role and their levels of confidence in fulfilling it. Some parents are put off by feeling put down by schools and teachers. Finally, several researches has been carried out on the confirmatory factor analysis of parental authority questionnaire: socioeconomic differences but not even a single research has been carried out on parental authority as a defense to child right; a critique.

 

  1. AIM AND OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY

The main aim and objectives of the study is to examine parental authority as a defense to child abuse. Other specific objectives of the study include;

  1. to determine the factors affecting parental authority and its effect on child abuse.
  2. to determine the extent to which parental authority affects child abuse.
  3. to assess parental authority as a defense to child abuse.
  4. to proffer possible solutions to the problems.  
    1. RESEARCH QUESTIONS

1.     What are the factors affecting parental authority and its effect on child abuse?

2.     What is the extent to which parental authority affects child abuse?

3.     How is parental authority as a defense to child abuse?

4.     What are the possible solutions to the problems? 

  1. RESEARCH HYPOTHESIS

Ho:  Parental authority has no significant effect on child abuse.

Hi:   Parental authority has a significant effect on child abuse.

  1. SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY

The study on parental authority as a defense to child abuse will be of immense benefit in the sense that it will encourage Parental involvement in many forms including good parenting in the home, the provision of a secure and stable environment, intellectual stimulation, parent-child discussion, good models of constructive social and educational values and high aspirations relating to personal fulfillment and good citizenship; contact with schools to share information; participation in school events; participation in the work of the school; and participation in school governance.

The study will also encourage parents to participate in parent training programmes, through initiatives to enhance home school links and on to programmes of family and community education. Finally, the study will contribute to the body of existing literature and knowledge to this field of study and basis for further research.

  1. SCOPE OF THE STUDY

The study on the parental authority as a defense is limited to child abuse.

  1. LIMITATION OF THE STUDY

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  1. DEFINITION OF TERMS

Parental Authority:                Parental authority refers to parents' rights and responsibilities toward their children from the minute they are born until they turn 18.

Tort:        A tort, in common law jurisdiction, is a civil wrong that causes a claimant to suffer loss or harm, resulting in legal liability for the person who commits the tortious act.


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