The Changing Role of Parents as Conveyors of Culture, and Its Contemporary Impact

Abstract

The oldest and most significant factor in education is the family, in which group members participate with the whole of their personality, providing and ensuring the conditions necessary for the maturity and development of the children. Meanwhile, they also convey behavioral patterns and serve as role models, conveying familial and social value systems, preparing the individual to participate in social interactions.

However, since he last decades of the 20^th century, the emergence of globalization and the information society, the social, economic, and cultural situation of children has changed radically (e.g. uniformization, new cultural profiles, etc.) Parents have to struggle with these dynamically changing challenges, while the digital world does not leave their own lives and thinking untouched, either.