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Dennis Wrong (1988), in his book Power: Its Form, Bases and Uses, argues that the parent-child social relation is, in relation to the distribution of power, the most asymmetrical of all social relations. Drawing on Bertrand de Jouvenal’s (1962) famous analysis of the three attributes of power (comprehensiveness, intensiveness and extensiveness), he concludes (15–16) that the power of the parent (in the parent-child relation) is the most comprehensive of all modern social relations:
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Bonner, K.M. (1998). The Problem of Contemporary Parenting. In: Power and Parenting. Edinburgh Studies in Culture and Society. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230375123_2
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