Family Parents have a large impact on children’s attitudes and values. For example, a study of fourth- and fifth-grade children and their parents confirmed that children identify with their parents’ attitudes (sinclair, Dunn, & lowery, 2005; Quintana, 2011). Cultural prejudice also follows this general pattern. The cultural prejudices of elementary schoolchildren representing diverse groups tend to resemble those of their parents. studies of young children show that those with the most prejudicial attitudes have parents who are authoritarian, use strict disciplinary techniques, and are inflexible in their attitudes toward right and wrong (aboud, 1988; aboud & amato, 2001). Thus, rigid parental attitudes foster similar attitudes in their children.