Strategies for Disciplining Children Used by Non-heterosexual Parents and Their Partners – a Case Study
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https://doi.org/10.12775/PBE.2015.037Keywords
disciplining strategies, love-oriented discipline, power-assertive discipline, inductive discipline, LGBT parents, moral development, children of LGBT parentsAbstract
The article presents the results of a qualitative research conducted between 2010 and 2014. The participants of the study were non-heterosexual parents and their partners bringing up a child.The research problem concerned disciplining strategies. Data analysis and interpretation of the results was conducted in the context of the theory of moral development by L.M. Hoffman. Out of the seven cases analysed, evidence for the use of inductive discipline was found in two. Other participants combined either the strategy of induction and the powerassertive discipline, or the power-assertive discipline and the love-oriented discipline.
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