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Parents' and Children's Friendship Networks

HARALD UHLENDORFF

University of Potsdam

Parents are considered as more or less supportive for children's friendships. In this study, it is investigated whether parents' own friendships can facilitate children's friendships and enrich children's cognitions about friendships. Data were collected on children's peer relationships and children's concepts of friendship (N = 116; 52 girls and 64 boys; 7 to 12 years old). Corresponding data on parental social networks, including friendships and kin relationships, were available. Results show that the more friends with whom parents spent leisure time and who were nominated by parents, the more friendships with nonclassmates were named by their children. Additionally, when parents had more friends, their children in late-middle childhood (ages 10 to 12 years) had more close reciprocated friendships with classmates. This was not true for children in early-middle childhood (ages 7 to 9 years). The more friendships that were maintained by parents, the more developed were children's friendship concepts. Parents' relationships with relatives did not predict children's friendships or children's friendship concepts.

Journal of Family Issues, Vol. 21, No. 2, 191-204 (2000)
DOI: 10.1177/019251300021002003
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