Preparation for Marriage and Parenthood

Ehrmann, Winston W.

doi:10.1080/00221546.1953.11776641

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“…Often there is a general assumption that anyone who reaches the age of marriage has an inherent capacity to take up marital and parental roles. Unlike in some western universities, there are no university level instructions in this fi eld in India (Ehrmann, 1953;Garret, 1949). The general sense of purpose of education in India is not often to do with practical matters such as relationships or bringing up children.…”

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“…With culture in transition in a country like India, with more families becoming nuclear and urbanized, levels of social support are changing and life styles are becoming increasingly complex. Adjustments and attitudes that have been slowly evolved over many centuries are no longer suffi cient for coping with some of the perplexities created by a rapidly changing world (Ehrmann, 1953). Educating expectant parents is a signifi cant investment which they in turn invest in their children ' s upbringing.…”

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Preparation for parenthood programme: Experiences from southern India

Thomas

Bhugra

2014

International Review of Psychiatry

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Parenting skills are critically important to ensure that children are brought up in a safe environment. Recent evidence shows that studies of parenting skills are still at a preliminary stage in low- and middle-income countries. These need to involve family practitioners and religious groups who often play a major role in preparing young people in India. There are organized programmes available in the country for Christian adults to prepare themselves for marriage and family life through various church initiatives and activities. In order to develop a programme which can be used to prepare young parents for responsibilities of parenthood, a needs assessment was carried out among 70 young adults who attended a marriage preparation course in Bangalore, India. All the participants belonged to the Christian faith. Participants consisted of 53% men and 47% women whose average age for deciding to get married was 26.8 years. All of them expressed a need for such a preparatory programme for parenthood. They considered they needed to know about normal child development, behavioural management of children, to develop adequate skills in handling children at different ages, and deal with their own past issues with their own parents when they were being parented. The results suggest that the development of a preparatory programme for young adults to support them in the role of parenthood must take their views and needs into account.

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confidence: 99%