Authoritarian parenting produces children unable to manage aggression or form intimate bonds

Evidence

The clinical sections of the interviews, which included questions on family background, childhood, sexuality, social relations and school, completed the picture by providing insights into the socialization processes that had influenced the formation of psychic structures and social and political views. For example, parents whose relationships to one another consisted of domination and submission, with fixed roles and duties, who demanded uncritical obedience from their children, and who hoped to achieve social advancement through conformist behaviour, made it more or less impossible for their children to develop any self-respect, to develop an ability to unload aggressive feelings on those who had caused them or to develop a capacity for close personal relationships. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1779

Categorization

• XREF: This is the Frankfurt School’s family-socialization thesis, parallel to Reich’s work on the authoritarian family and echoing the family-structure analysis earlier chapters covered in the Institute’s German years. — connects to: Fear learned in childhood drives authoritarian aggression; Overly punitive parenting produces an internal conflict that fuels later scapegoating — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 1562; Early parenting style shapes lifelong tolerance versus authoritarianism — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice: Fifty Years…, 2431 (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• A permissive, secure childhood produces tolerant personalities, harsh discipline authoritarian ones #corroborates (0.90)
• Warm, secure parenting produces tolerance while harsh parenting produces prejudice #corroborates (0.88)
• Fear learned in childhood drives authoritarian aggression #expands (0.85)
• Overtly punitive family socialization was theorized to produce authoritarian personality #corroborates (0.85) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 398
• Early parenting style shapes lifelong tolerance versus authoritarianism #corroborates (0.82) — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice, 2431
• Overly punitive parenting produces an internal conflict that fuels later scapegoating #expands (0.80) — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 1562