Why Children Keep Pets: The Influence of Child and Family Characteristics

摘要: AbstractTwo separate but complementary questionnaire surveys were undertaken to assess the relationship between various demographic and family variables individual variation in levels of childhood pet ownership. The first survey investigated ownership a cross-section families with schoolaged children. In second, large sample university students invited report retrospectively on pets they their had owned during childhood. Results from both showed that age, gender, sibling status number, parental attitudes toward all significantly related number children family, parents' pets, also found be