ABSTRACT
This chapter provides an exploration of why it is important for parents to take their role as educators about war and peace seriously. It discusses how US parents talk about war as compared to peace, and the third part compares actions or statements of parents when analyzed by the gender of the parent and of the child. The chapter presents the methods that parents say they use to teach their children about war and peace. It outlines implications of the research findings for the tasks of parents as they act as educators about war and peace. Some of the gender differences may be due to the fact that a number of the fathers were in young adulthood during the Vietnam War. Clearly, parents felt that they were teaching their children about war and peace issues by the example of their own behavior, although mothers with sons were less likely to report this than were other pairs.
