The stability of infant difficulties was related to negative maternal and paternal emotional reactions (as reported by the mother) toward conception, low satisfaction with the couple's relationship before pregnancy, and rigid parent-centered maternal attitudes towards infant rearing.
A more punitive and authoritarian-rigid parenting style has been associated with more right-wing attitudes (Fend 1991), more xenophobia (Hefler et al. 1999), and stronger authoritarian characteristics (Rebenstorf et al. 2000) in adolescents.
But Jez Bond's sparky production charts the descent into mayhem with engaging wit as the alarming extent of Natasha's rigid, theory-based parenting is exposed and as Izzy launches into a drunken, gloriously incoherent aria of self-pity about the multi-cultural conspiracy that has left decent, confused white folk afraid to open their mouths for fear of committing some hate crime.
These practices include overly rigid or authoritarian parenting styles, in which rules and roles are inflexibly maintained, often with significant power differentials between husband and wife and a lack of mutual respect or coordinated actions (Walsh 2006).
But not my kid, who fought, pouted, pleaded, then accepted his parents' rigid adherence to license restrictions.
Ruscha's father, a strict Catholic and a rigid disciplinarian whose parents came from Germany (where the family name was Rusiska), worked for thirty years as an auditor with the Hartford Insurance Company in Oklahoma City.
Driven by a shared dissatisfaction with South Korea's rigid educational system, parents in rapidly expanding numbers are seeking to give their children an edge by helping them become fluent in English while sparing them, and themselves, the stress of South Korea's notorious educational pressure cooker.
Less noticed but still good is the rise of a younger generation of Christian fundamentalists who do not share their parents' rigid Bible belief.
At any rate, it would be odd to say that parents are more fundamental than their children, even if there is a (temporally relativized) rigid existential dependency between parents and their children.
There are rigid authority figures, normally parents, who must be accommodated, witty and wily slaves who help engineer the plot, and sometimes long-lost children who show up just in time for a happy ending.
Many parents set rigid study schedules and urge their children to excel in hopes that someday they may enroll in medical school.
