The Role of Father in Character Building of Early Childhood in the Family Environment of Labour Women in Indonesia

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10.2991/icece-16.2017.79How to use a DOI?

Keywords

The character of early childhood, Labor women family, Father parenting

Abstract

Childhood is the most important part in a person's life because that is when the parents in the family are obliged to build noble character values that will be the basis of his personality in days to come. Education at an early age the child receives is the foundation of his noble character in the future. The parenting system who applied by parents is closely related to the character of the child in the future. Generally, parenting is done jointly and continuously by both parents. This was not the case in the family environment of Labor Women, where women who work as foreign workers must leave the house within a certain time. Automatically, when the mother is not there, childcare responsibilities entirely switched to the father. This research aims to get an overview about the fathers parenting on early childhood in the family environment of Labor Women. In order to describe the social situation in depth, then used a qualitative approach. The father and his sons is a participant in the study. Data collection techniques, through observation; deep interview; and literature studies. Data analysis include data reduction, data display, and conclusion. Triangulation of data sources, which is one component of testing the credibility of the data in qualitative research, also conducted. The results showed, the typology of parenting fathers tend to do is authoritative. The methods used in the construction of the children's character at an early age is imitation and conditioning. A typology of different father parenting, it turns out that tend to produce different characters within the child

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© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Wilodati Wilodati
PY  - 2016/11
DA  - 2016/11
TI  - The Role of Father in Character Building of Early Childhood in the Family Environment of Labour Women in Indonesia
BT  - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Early Childhood Education (ICECE 2016)
PB  - Atlantis Press
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EP  - 455
SN  - 2352-5398
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