Describe the different parenting styles in Baumrind's typology and explain child outcomes for each type. Provide an example for each.

Question

What will be an ideal response?

Answer 1

The ideal answer should include:
1. Authoritative parenting: high in warmth/responsiveness and high in control. Parents using this style have high expectations for maturity, set standards, explain and enforce rules, and use positive discipline techniques. The parent has high standards for the child's behavior but is also warm and responsive to the child's needs. Children are more likely to be independent, self-reliant, cheerful, and cooperative with adults and other children than is the case for the other parenting styles.
2. Authoritarian parenting: high in control but low in warmth/responsiveness. Parents using this style have strict rules and expect obedience, but do not explain the rules as often as authoritative parents. They may expect immediate, unquestioning compliance to their requests, but may not explain the reasoning behind the requests. These parents are more likely to use negative discipline techniques. Children are more likely to have internalizing or externalizing problems than children of authoritative parents.
3. Permissive parents: high in warmth/responsiveness, but low in control. Parents using this style have lower expectations for maturity than the other two types. They may allow the child to make decisions that are beyond the child's capacities, such as setting her own bed time or choosing if she wants to go to school or not. These children tend to be low in self-control and cooperativeness with peers and teachers, and boys tend to be impulsive and aggressive.
4. Uninvolved parents: low in warmth/responsiveness and low in control. Parents using this style may be neglectful and unresponsive to their child's needs. These children fare the worst of the four types in psychological adjustment and academic achievement.