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PARENT-CHILD RELATIONSHIPS IN THE UZBEK FAMILY
Usmonova Nargiza Raximjonovna
Senior lecturer at Kokand University
Abstract:
This article describes in detail the relationship between parents and children in the
Uzbek family, the relationship between parents and each other in the upbringing of children in
the Uzbek family, parental control in the relationship, and parental warmth.
Keywords:
family, Uzbek family, family life, parents, children, interpersonal relationships.
Introduction
The family is not just an institution connected by blood ties, but the most important social
institution of society, one of the main factors in the formation of a human personality. A child is
born and grows up in an Uzbek family, where he learns human relationships, moral norms, social
roles and responsibilities in a sacred institution called the family. In the family, the child learns
the behavior, manner of treatment, and criteria for evaluation of his parents and close relatives. If
kindness, respect and understanding prevail in the family, the child will also assimilate these
values and develop into a healthy, well-rounded individual. On the contrary, if indifference,
conflicts and instability prevail in the family, these circumstances will inevitably have a negative
impact on the child's psychological development.
The family is the first school of human life, the most important social institution of society. It is
in the family that the child first becomes acquainted with love, affection, upbringing and moral
values. Healthy relationships between parents and children affect the stability of not only the
family, but also society. The role of parents in raising a child is invaluable, and their
relationships based on mutual respect determine the child's future personality, spirituality and
position in society.
In Uzbek families, from the moment a child is born, parents take on the responsibility of loving,
caring for, spiritually educating and preparing him for social life. The upbringing that parents
give to their children determines their personality, relationships, and status in society throughout
their lives.
As the thinker Abdulla Avloni noted, “Upbringing is a matter of life or death, salvation or
destruction, happiness or disaster for us.” So, the educational approach of parents is not only a
family matter, but also a national issue.
In the Uzbek family, the relationship between parents and each other is considered very
important in raising children. It is emphasized that it is not right to leave the upbringing of a
child only to the mother. The role of the father in this regard is also invaluable. A son is more
likely to follow in the footsteps of his father in life. The sincerity, respect, and kindness of the
father are a source of strength for the child. The father, the main pillar of the family, is a great
person who, having gone through the hardships of life, is distinguished by his unbending will,
justice, and endurance of life's trials. A father can be an example for his children in the family in
terms of correctness, honesty, and sincerity in behavior, speech etiquette, and culture of
interaction. If sincerity, love, and respect for each other are high in the family, it has a positive
effect on the growth and development of the child. Alisher Navoi teaches children that another
aspect of upbringing is respecting parents: "It is worth sacrificing your head for your father and
giving your whole div for your mother's head. If you want your two worlds to be prosperous,
seek the consent of these two people. Consider one of those who give light to you day and night
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as the moon, and the other as the sun."
The spiritual and psychological environment in the family is of great importance in the
upbringing of a child. The family is responsible for raising a healthy, mature child. Raising a
child to be healthy, mature, educated, and ambitious depends on the family and parents.
It is difficult to overestimate the importance of parent-child relationships in human life in Uzbek
families. The relationship between parents and children, which is the main system of social
relations, is aimed at ensuring the formation of the most important structures of self-awareness,
the development of socio-psychological qualities and the disclosure of the internal potential of a
growing personality. The quality of relationships between parents and children depends on many
factors and has a significant impact not only on the mental development of the child, but also on
his attitude and behavior in adulthood. The family, as is known, is the first social institution in
which a person is formed as a person. What a child learns in the family in childhood, he retains
throughout his later life. The importance of the family as an educational institution is that the
child spends a significant part of his life in it, and no other educational institution can be
compared with the family in terms of the duration of its influence on the personality. It is in it
that the foundation of the child's personality is laid, and by the time he enters school, he is
already more than half formed as a person. In the formation and development of the personal
characteristics of a growing person, the parent-child relationship, which develops during
adolescence and sometimes acquires an acute character, plays an important role.
Parent-child relationships can be defined as a selected emotional-evaluative psychological
relationship of the child with each of the parents, which determines the characteristics of the
child's perception of his parents and methods of communication with them, expressed in
experiences, actions, reactions associated with the age-psychological characteristics of children,
cultural models of behavior and their own life experience. That is, parent-child relationships are
perceived by a person of any age as a subjective understanding of the nature of relationships with
mother and father.
An important feature of parent-child relationships in Uzbek families is their constant change with
the age of the child and the inevitable separation of the child from his parents. Mothers of
preschool-aged children report characteristics such as closeness, cooperation, consistency, and
satisfaction in their relationships with their children, and mothers rate their children as
benevolent and genuinely interested in good interpersonal relationships and living for the benefit
of others.
The main types of parent-child relationships in psychology.
Types of parent-child relationships in the family consist of two important factors:
- Parental control - the desire of parents to establish rules, restrictions and prohibitions in relation
to the child, as well as to influence him in general.
- Parental warmth is an expression of love, care, praise and support for the child.
Parental control can be excessive, when the child must fulfill the established rules and
obligations without the right to discuss them. Or it can be minimized, when parents give too
much freedom in actions. The same is true with parental warmth: if warmth greatly exceeds the
norm, it is expressed in increased care, indulgence, which leads to cold relations in relations with
the child.
Conclusion: In the Uzbek family, the relationship between parents and children, the views of the
parents, emotional closeness and balanced control play a very important role in the formation of
a child as a healthy personality. On the contrary, excessive coldness, indifference or excessive
strictness and control increase the child's feelings of insecurity, stress and dissatisfaction.
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