Explain the four types of parenting styles.

What will be an ideal response?


Answers will vary. The four common parenting styles are authoritarian, authoritative, permissive, and uninvolved.In authoritarian parenting, parents tend to be harsh, unresponsive, and rigid, using their power to control a child's behavior. Authoritative parenting is warm, responsive, and involved, but parents set limits and expect appropriately mature behavior from their children. Permissive parenting is lax: Parents set few rules but are usually warm and responsive. Uninvolved parenting is indifferent and neglectful.

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A. Governments keep statistics on their own criminal behavior. B. They are committed to advance government interests. C. Such crimes are uncommon. D. They are the least harmful type of crime.

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