ildren were kept isolated from the adult world and innocence was highly valued as something to preserve for as long as possible to the contemporary era where integrating children successfully in the adult world and innocence is viewed as a ôvulnerability,ö the author maintains that those who label these different styles of parenting as good or bad do not realize that ôNeither position is wholly accurate,ö (Calvert, 1998, p. 243).
Instead, Calvert argues that parenting or childrearing styles of each historical period, though both aim at normalization and socialization, are directly related to social phenomena in each era. For example, in the V
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