The most significant impact parents can have on their children is by acting as

a. social instructors, teaching religious and political views.
b. cultural agents, passing on the ways of society.
c. cultural watchdogs, transmitting attitudes about how others should be judged.
d. societal boundaries, diminishing the effect of the peer group on the child.


Answer: b. cultural agents, passing on the ways of society.

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