How many hours a day do Israeli parents spend with their children?

What do parent-child relations in Israel look like in 2021?

Do not spend much time together, but follow the children by digital means to know where they are at any given moment, and do not think that school is a safe place for them.

A special survey for International Children's Day reveals a complex picture

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19/11/2021

Friday, 19 November 2021, 06:48

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This weekend marks International Children's Day around the world, and a public opinion poll conducted by the Adler Institute through IPANEL is published, in order to examine the extent of parents' involvement in Israel in their children's lives, how concerned parents are about their children.

The survey shows that for 92 percent of respondents it is important to know where their child is at any given moment, and 37 percent of them even use digital aids to know where the child is at any given moment, receive alerts about his location and sometimes learn the exact history of child movements. Knowing where he is going and where he is.

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On the other hand, parents spend less and less time with the children when most of the day the child is not under parental supervision.

A survey by the Adler Institute shows that a quarter of respondents spend less than two hours a day with their children.

This seems to be one of the significant reasons why many parents are more concerned and want to know where the child is at any given moment.

Not being with them physically, but following them from a distance.

Girl with smartphone (Photo: ShutterStock)

Beyond the physical space, it is known that children spend most of their free time on the virtual network and are exposed to content that is usually not filtered and controlled.

About half of the respondents in the survey (49 percent) think that children should be allowed to open an account on social networks aged 16 and over.

While reality shows that children are on social media already at a much younger age.

One in three respondents are actively monitoring their child's social network and 30 percent of them said they do so to a large extent and regularly

Who is responsible for sex education here?

The presence of boys and girls on social networks also exposes them to a variety of content that is not always adapted to their age, which raises another issue - a discourse on sexuality.

The survey shows that 60 percent of parents think they should talk to their children about adolescence sexuality (12-18).

30 percent of respondents think it is worth talking to children about sexuality before the age of 10.

Most parents (about 70 percent) believe that they should be their children's primary educators on sexuality, and only 16 percent of parents answered that this task is the responsibility of the education system.

8 percent think that who should be the children's primary educator for sexuality are generally qualified professionals in the subject.

21% of parents do not know if their child is boycotting

Damage to the virtual space is often a direct continuation of the damage to the physical space. The survey shows a worrying statistic - 21 percent of parents do not know at all whether their child has been or is being boycotted at school. There seems to be a disconnect between the parents' desire to be connected to what the child is going through, and the actual reality. When almost a quarter of the parents are not connected to their child's social status.

Overall, about half of respondents (53 percent) think school is a safe place for their children, while close to 30 percent think school is not a safe place.17 percent of respondents said they do not know if school is a safe place for their children.

When asked about the responsibility for the children's education, 80 percent of the respondents answered that most of the educational responsibility lies with the parents, and only 13 percent answered that most of the responsibility is on the education system - almost universally parents trust themselves more than the education system.

Almost a third of parents do not think that school is a safe place for their children. Children go to school (Photo: Reuven Castro)

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"The dizzying pace of change that has burst into our lives is greatly affecting the relationship between parents and their children. Not every parent always finds the personal resources needed for parental and personal coping. "Adler Institute Lian Sela.

According to her, in the new pace of life, parents spend less time with their children and therefore are more concerned and try to monitor and control - both the virtual world in which children roam and the physical world - through such and other digital aids." Social networks have become a central space And significant in the children's lives, when the presence of the parents is of great importance by getting to know the children's network spaces, supervision, guidance and ongoing conversation.

The survey illustrates in the most prominent way that there is a lot of work ahead of us. "

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