The Rol es and C hall e n ges of pare nt s to Protect Teenage Children fro m We stern C ultural Influence A case stu dy at Bole sub- city, Add is Ababa , Ethi o pi a
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2014-06
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Addis Ababa University
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This research assesses parents' awareness towards western culture including its negative and
positive impacts. It mainly explores parents' roles to protect teenage children from western
cultural influence and to embrace their own culture. It also explores both the internal and
external parental challenges that hinders them to perfonn their roles. Moreover, it identifies the
potential opportunities both internally and externally to enhance and sUpp0l1 parents' role. The
research is conducted in Bole sub city, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. A qualitative research method,
case study approach is employed to obtain comprehensive data and sixteen teenage
child/children parents with different social economic background are participated in- depth
interviewed. Consequently, the finding indicates that participants' have a certain understanding
towards western cultures in general and majority of them indicated western cultures are very
influential to teenage children. However, most of the participants' were confi dent that they are
perfonning their roles to protect their children from western cultural influence but they identified
they have not done much to embrace children their own culture. They al so revealed that from all
fonns of western cultures particularly, they are highly challenged by their lack of awareness
advancement of electronic technologies and media exposures of westerns' and their work
situations.
Based on the study major findings and rel ated literatures general conclusion and
significant social work profession implications are forwarded. Besides a conceptual frame work
is designed to summarize the basic findings and to show the conceptual relationships with the
aim of the study.
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Roles and Challenges of parents to Protect