Authors:
Robinson GW, Tyler WB, Silburn SR, Zubrick SR
Authors notes:
Children and Society. 2012:online
Keywords:
Behaviour problems, Children's culture, Early prevention, Education, Gender
Abstract:
Evaluation of a group parenting programme in the Northern Territory of Australia showed significant differences in benefits for Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal boys and girls.
The analysis considers whether boys and girls from different cultural backgrounds present with different problems; whether parental expectations for boys and girls differ and whether the intervention activates different responses in different settings.
Conclusions suggest that there is a need to closely examine the 'cultural logic' of interventions, the appropriateness of their assumptions about child development and hypothesised mechanisms of change in different settings.