Kassahun, Meseret (PhD)Kebede, Tigist2018-06-212023-11-042018-06-212023-11-042014-06http://etd.aau.edu.et/handle/123456789/2718This 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 studyenSocial WorkThesis