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Children, Young People & Adults: Extending the Conversation

Children, Young People & Adults: Extending the Conversation. Aimie Brennan School of Sociology University College Cork Aimie.brennan@gmail.com. The question of participation. Ph. D class differences in children’s leisure Including children was vital to the research

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Children, Young People & Adults: Extending the Conversation

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  1. Children, Young People & Adults: Extending the Conversation Aimie Brennan School of Sociology University College Cork Aimie.brennan@gmail.com

  2. The question of participation Ph. Dclass differences in children’s leisure Including children was vital to the research Children’s input contradicted parent’s input Children participate in the regulation process Children’s participation differs according to class

  3. The Regulation of Childhood • Indoor Play Valentine & McKendrick (1997) in Britain found 95% of parents restrict outdoor play. Karsten in Netherlands (2005) compared 1950 with 2003. She identified a change in children’s space • Structured Activity Lareau(2000) in the US Found children’s play being centred around structured activities amongst middle classes. Marginalised children’s play still dominated by unstructured play Mobility Hillman et al. (1990) in Britain. Children in 1990 have limited mobility in comparison with 1971. Fotel and Thomsen 2004 identified increase in chauffeuring

  4. Measuring Irish Childhood Growing up in Ireland (GUI) Longitudinal project. Launched in 2007. following the progress of 8,500 nine-year-olds and 11,000 nine-month-olds for a period of seven years. Some Findings 75% of 9 year olds were involved in some organised activity after school Class difference in the types & number of activities High percentage of parents feel neighbourhoods are safe

  5. Research objectives Qualitative understanding of recent trends in children’s leisure from (GUI) Map class differences in children’s leisure experience (Lareau, 2000) Incorporate children’s unstructured activities in my discussion of leisure Explore the link between social structures such as community, education, media which impact upon parent’s behaviour Identify class differences in children’s agency

  6. Empirical Research Cross – Class analysis Haase & Pratschke (2008) deprivation index used to identify communities to target Occupation scale from the Central Statistics Office (2006) 3 middle class & 3 marginalised communities Qualitative Participants 1 study child per family aged 6-10 1 parent per family Seventeen families (interviews, activity packs) 37 interviews Quantitative Participants (104) 63 children, 43 parents, 5 community members

  7. Discrepancy between answers of parents and children CHILDREN’S RESPONSES CONTRADICT PARENTS • 100% parents always know where their children are • 69% children said parents always know where they are • 100% parents said children never left home alone • 26% children are allowed to stay home alone • 100% parents said children don’t use the internet unsupervised • 54% of children use the internet unsupervised

  8. Child’s Responseto Regulation CHILDREN’S RESPONSES CONTRADICT LITERATURE • All children acknowledge the need for regulation • Children don’t want to be left home alone • Children don’t feel old enough to look after themselves • Marginalised children co-operate with parents regulation • Marginalised children test the boundaries • Middle-class children co-operate with regulation • Middle class children defend parent’s behaviour

  9. Bibliography • Foteland Thomsen. 2004. The surveillance of children’s mobility. Surveillance & Society. Vol. 1 (4), pp. 535-554. • Haase, T. and Pratschke, J. May 2008. New Measures of Deprivation in the Republic of Ireland – An Inter-Temporal and Spatial Analysis of Data from the Census of Population 1991, 1996, 2002 and 2006. NDP Area Development Management limited. • Hillman, M., Adams, J. and Whitelegg, N. 1990. One false move: A study of children’s independent mobility. London: Policy Studies Institute. • Lareau, A. 2000. ‘Social class and the Daily Lives of Children: A Study from the United States’. Childhood. Vol. 7 (155) • Valentine and McKendrick. 1997. ‘Children’s Outdoor Play; Exploring Parental Concerns about Children’s Safety and the Changing Nature of Childhood’. Geoforum. Vol. 28 (2), pp.219-235. • Williams, J., Greene, S., Doyle, E., Harris, E., Layte, R., McCoy, S., McCrory, C., Murray, A., Nixon, E., O’Dowd, T., O’Moore, M., Quail, A., Smyth, E., Swords, L. and Thornton, M. 2009. The lives of 9 Year Olds. Growing up in Ireland National Longitudinal Study of Children. Dublin: Office of the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs.

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