TY - JOUR
T1 - Balancing the family and the collective in raising children
T2 - Why communal sleeping in kibbutzim was predestined to end
AU - Aviezer, Ora
AU - Sagi, Abraham
AU - Van Ijzendoorn, Marinus
PY - 2002
Y1 - 2002
N2 - This article integrates research data about attachment in kibbutz-raised children with a review of the socio-historical processes that shaped the interrelations between the kibbutz family and the collective and influenced childrearing practices. It uses systems theory to evaluate the changing practices of kibbutz childrearing with particular focus on communal sleeping for infants and children away from their parents, and its impact on the formation of attachment relations to parents and caregivers, transmission of attachment across generations, and later school competence. It argues that artificial childrearing practices such as communal sleeping for infants and children created a unique and unprecedented "social experiment in nature," which, from the perspective of attachment theory, was predestined to be discontinued because it betrayed the essential attachment needs of most parents and children.
AB - This article integrates research data about attachment in kibbutz-raised children with a review of the socio-historical processes that shaped the interrelations between the kibbutz family and the collective and influenced childrearing practices. It uses systems theory to evaluate the changing practices of kibbutz childrearing with particular focus on communal sleeping for infants and children away from their parents, and its impact on the formation of attachment relations to parents and caregivers, transmission of attachment across generations, and later school competence. It argues that artificial childrearing practices such as communal sleeping for infants and children created a unique and unprecedented "social experiment in nature," which, from the perspective of attachment theory, was predestined to be discontinued because it betrayed the essential attachment needs of most parents and children.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=0036728263&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1111/j.1545-5300.2002.41310.x
DO - 10.1111/j.1545-5300.2002.41310.x
M3 - Article
C2 - 12395568
AN - SCOPUS:0036728263
VL - 41
SP - 435
EP - 454
JO - Family Process
JF - Family Process
SN - 0014-7370
IS - 3
ER -