Publisher's Synopsis
CONCEPTUAL FRAME WORK
The present study is directly related with the Child rearing practices. The child
rearing practices is affected by so many important variables like that of SES,
Education, Culture, Caste, Intelligence and Creativity etc. There is no doubt to say
that Child rearing practices are the interactions between a child and mother or it can
be said that rearing involves bringing up and taking care of the child from birth till
fourteen years of age. It is not a technical term with precise significant. As
per seare Maccaby and Levin the child rearing practices refer generally to all
those interactions, which includes the expression of the parents, values,
interests, beliefs, disbeliefs as well as their care taking behaviour. According to
Mehta the child rearing practices are reflecting of basic attitudes of the mother towards
the child. An humble attempt has been made in this study, to study the impact of
intelligence, culture and caste on child rearing practices.
The detailed description of all these variables
alongwith the components of child rearing practices are as to follow hereinafter,
