Describe the different types of parenting. Is one type of parenting better than another type of parenting?
What will be an ideal response?
A good answer would include the following key points:
- Baumrind established four parenting styles based on the demandingness and responsiveness of the parents
- Authoritative parents are firm, set clear and consistent limits
- Highly responsive and demanding
- Relatively strict, but loving and emotionally supportive
- Encourage independence and communication
- Authoritarian parents are controlling, punitive, rigid, and cold
- Low responsiveness but high demanding
- Their word is law; value strict, unquestioning obedience from children
- Do not tolerate expressions of disagreement
- Permissive parents are lax and provide inconsistent feedback
- Highly responsive but undemanding
- Require little of their children, don't see much parental responsibility for children
- Place little or no limits or control on children's behaviors
- Uninvolved parents display indifferent, rejecting behaviors
- Low responsiveness and undemanding
- Detached emotionally
- See role as providing only essentials (food, clothing, shelter)
- Results in neglect, a form of child abuse
- Children of authoritative parents fare best overall.
- They are generally independent, friendly with peers, self-assertive, and cooperative
- They have strong motivation to achieve, and are typically successful and likeable
- They regulate their own behavior effectively
- While authoritative parenting may be the most effective overall, there are times and situations when another style of parenting may be more appropriate.
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