Thesis (Ed.M.)--Boston UniversityThe purpose of this study is to find the relationship between the
parental attitudes of acceptance and rejection and skill in reading in
a group of fifty-eight male students from a private preparatory school.
Parental attitudes tend to fall into two main classifications: acceptance
and rejection. The attitude of parental acceptance is closely related
to the sentiment of love. The attitude of parental rejection is closely
related to the sentiment of hate. Many parents have ambivalent feelings
of love and hate for their children, but there is a tendency for either
acceptance or rejection to be predominant in the total parental relationship
with the child