Authoritative Parenting by Father: A Strategy for Gaining Noble Character of Child in Indonesian Migrant Workers Family
- DOI
- 10.2991/icesshum-19.2019.117How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Character, Indonesian Migrant Workers / Female Workers (in Indonesia known as TKW), Authoritative Parenting
- Abstract
Parenting is defined as the interaction between a child and his parents with love, in an effort to foster a child's character. In the family environment of Indonesian Migrant Workers / Female Workers (in Indonesia known as TKW), where mothers work as foreign workers abroad for a certain period of time, the responsibility of child care goes to the father, who is also still a breadwinner for his family. The purpose of this study was to obtain an overview of father's authoritative parenting as a strategy to foster the noble character of children in the TKW family environment. In order to express in depth the social situation in the field, a qualitative approach is used. Father; their children; and relatives involved in the care of children in the TKW family environment, acting as participants. The data collection technique carried out was observation; deep interview; and literature studies. The analysis of the data includes data reduction, display data, and conclusion. The results of the study show that through authoritative foster care the father who highly respects the existence of children produces various noble characters such as independence, responsibility, tolerance, communicative, and adaptive.
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- © 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Wilodati PY - 2019/08 DA - 2019/08 TI - Authoritative Parenting by Father: A Strategy for Gaining Noble Character of Child in Indonesian Migrant Workers Family BT - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Education Social Sciences and Humanities (ICESSHum 2019) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 743 EP - 749 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/icesshum-19.2019.117 DO - 10.2991/icesshum-19.2019.117 ID - 2019/08 ER -