Lareau

According to sociologist Annette Lareau, working-class parents continue to follow the traditional, laissez-faire child-rearing philosophy that she calls "the accomplishment of natural growth."

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Elite children "learn to think of themselves as special and as entitled to receive certain kinds of services," Lareau notes, but working class kids learn a sense of powerlessness and resentment towards professionals, whom they often see as uncaring, arrogant, and exercising unchecked power over working class lives.

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Richard Colebrook Harris, The Seigneurial System in Early Canada: A Geographical Study (Madison, 1968), 3; Edmond Lareau, Histoire du droit canadien (Montreal, 1888), 1:159–60.

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Richard Colebrook Harris, The Seigneurial System in Early Canada: A Geographical Study (Madison, 1968), 3; Edmond Lareau, Histoire du droit canadien (Montreal, 1888), 1:159–60.

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E/3048 (1957) (amended 1977) (emphasis added); see Lareau, 651 F.2d at 106 (relying on these standards in assessing the meaning of “adequate shelter” and holding floor-sleeping unconstitutional).

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Powell, 838 F.2d 28, 30 (1st Cir.1988)(holding that floor-sleeping with mattress stated cognizable Fourteenth Amendment violation); Anela, 790 F.2d at 1069 (same, in light of Lareau and Union County); Albano v.

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Over the course of several years, Lareau and her research assistants observed a variety of families from different class backgrounds, basically moving in to each home for three weeks of intensive scrutiny.

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Lareau found that the middle-class families she studied all followed a similar strategy, which she labeled concerted cultivation.

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But outside the family unit, Lareau wrote, the advantages of “natural growth” disappear.

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This strategy Lareau named accomplishment of natural growth.

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