A Comparative Study of Child Rearing Values in Central Asia, the Middle East and North Africa

In the contemporary world، the phenomenon of globalization has been leading to more similarities in many aspects of social life at different levels. But there are many differences among countries yet. The present research concentrates on the child rearing values. Nine characteristics of importance in the process of socialization have been studied. The main question is ‘what are the important child rearing values? ’ Then similarities and differences among the targeted countries are discussed. The research method is second analysis. Data are from the fourth wave of the world value survey. The sample consists of 14 countries from Central Asia، the Middle East and North Africa whose data were available. Findings show that the child rearing values in Central Asia is different from those of the Middle East and North Africa. In addition، there are significant differences in the importance of all the values amongst the countries under study.