Who is more likley to disobey their parents?

Question

Boys or girls, women or men?

What is your opinion or reason why?

Were you different then everyone else?

Answer 1

GIRLS !!!!!! i have 2 girls and omg they are so naughty and my boy is just lovely does what he is told and tell his mum she is beautiful ...... the girls call me a cow LOL

Answer 2

I don't think rebellion has a gender or an age. People rebel for many reasons: mischief, injustice, resentment, pressure, anger, hatred, etc. In the case of children with their parents, I think there's an additional component: because negative attention is better than no attention at all.

Many children feel unloved (which can come as a result of multivarious factors). When someone feels unloved, there's a psychological switch that is flipped (whether conscious or not), that says, "Hey, if I don't matter to this person, why should it matter what I do?" And so the rebellion begins.

Kids may also rebel because they're allowed to get away with it. (Not always, of course...this is a generalization.) One of the most important things a parent can do for a child is set clear-cut reasonable boundaries, set consequences, and follow through with their word. It's a parent's job to create the arena...and it's a kid's job to test the efficacy of the structure. If a kid pushes and finds the fortress strong and unshakeable, he/she is less likely to continue pushing. (Qualifier: IF the child understands why the boundaries are there and feels that they're created from a place of love.) Conversely, if a kid pushes and finds the the fortress weak, that he/she is able to chip away at or break through the structure, then the child learns that boundaries are meaningless. The more successful a kid is at breaking through in the present, the more likely the chances of successful rebellion in the future (near and distant).

Another reason kids may rebel is from a sense of pressure and injustice. If the punishment doesn't match the crime, resentment and anger can (and often do) set in. That is a sure-fire recipe for rebellion. Unreasonable parental expectations (i.e. nothing less than straight A's, All-American athlete, honor society, perfectly clean room, perfect obedience, etc.); abuse (verbal, psychological and/or physical); inequality with siblings (one set of rules for you, one set for the others); etc....these can all have disastrous effects on a child's psyche. A child under this kind of pressure is often a volcano lying dormant until a future eruption occurs, laying waste everything in his/her path.

As for children vs adult rebellion, the only thing I have to say is that practice makes perfect. History is the best determinant of future behavior...if a child is rebellious, chances are he/she will grow up to be a rebellious adult.

This isn't always the case, of course...it's just "in general." My own experience is: raised in a severely abusive home environment, unreasonable, unequal gender treatment, huge pressure, etc. I've turned out ok. I've never been rebellious by nature...I'm a people-pleaser. However, I was a secret rebel. My early teen years were marked by experimentation that was more a silent rebellion against my parents than it was succumbing to peer-pressure. It was short-lived, thank goodness. My life was changed when I became a believer and follower of Christ. He made sense to me amidst the chaos of my life. The boundary I was seeking my whole life but never got.

Answer 3

Among my kids, it's definitely been the boys, especially as they became teenagers. They are more willing to push limits, take risks, and hope that they'll get away with stuff.

For myself, I was pretty obedient to my parents until I left home to go to college. At that point, I definitely tried some stuff my parents wouldn't approve of (not all of which they ever knew about) but in the end, I embraced the values with which I was raised.

Answer 4

Boys get whipped with a belt, or at least I did, and to tell you the truth I came out to be good.
I guess if I would have been born a girl it might have been easier.

Answer 5

They will both do it: the difference is the girls are sneakier and will cry when caught! (Mother of 6, 3 girls-- 3 boys!)

Answer 6

Both sexes..particularly if the parents are very very strict..when the kids get old enough to have freedom they tend to go haywire. The ones I found who go most haywire are the kids of pastors/reverends etc.

Answer 7

girls, because you hear about them all the time on the news about them breaking rules and curfew and stuff. boys are smarter than that. of corse there are some who are that stupid but not as many.

Answer 8

Boy
Because they don't listen as well as girls
Girls are more scared of things then boys

Answer 9

It purely depends on how a child is being treated & guided by parents.

It is not based on Gender.!!

Answer 10

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