The Roles and Challenges of parents to Protect Teenage Children from Western Cultural Influence A case study at Bole sub city Addis Ababa Ethiopia
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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 hinder them to perform their roles. Moreover, it identifies
the potential opportunities both internally and externally to enhance and support 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
confident that they are performing 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 also revealed that from all forms 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 related 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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