ABSTRACT
A boy's social development is a process of gradual advance along lines laid down in early childhood. As he grows older he grows more and more proficient in the economic skills he began to acquire in childhood and better versed in the details of his culture. If children are asked about their attitudes to their parents they always say that they do not 'fear' their own father as much as they 'fear' their father's older brother. In particular, the familiarity between parents and children never goes so far as mutual teasing, as in a joking relationship. One of the most interesting things about the relations of parents and children among the Tallensi is their conduct to one another in the intercourse of everyday life. No one can tell from the behaviour to each other in ordinary intercourse of a man and his adult son or married daughter that they are parent and child.
