ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the major parenting values and practices among Uyghurs. Parenting values and parenting practices are two key properties of parenting. To a large extent, parenting practices partly reflect parenting values. The chapter analyzes data on both parenting values and parenting practices. Parenting values are both the moral principles and standards by which parents bring up their children and the socialization goals by which the parents want their children to live their lives. Parenting practices refer to the way parents raise their children, which includes psychological control, behavioral control, and parental support. In short, many Uyghur informants insisted that their parenting values stressed filial piety, equality, cultivation, honesty, etc., and they raised their children in appropriate ways. Demographics may affect parenting values and parenting practices. Religion is apparently a predictor of childrearing attitudes and practices. Parental quality may be seen as a benchmark for the character of a community or ethnic group.
