Parenting Styles Explanations
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Explain how each of the four parenting styles (authoritarian, authoritative, neglectful, and indulgent) can impact children's physical, cognitive, social, and emotional development. Also explain the role of culture in influencing parenting styles.
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(1) Explain how each of the four parenting styles (authoritarian, authoritative, neglectful, and indulgent) can impact children's physical, cognitive, social, and emotional development.
As described in the literature, Greening, Stoppelbein, & Luebbe (2010) describe parenting styles in four categories in which parents use to interact with their children. He characterized these styles as acceptance/sensitivity or demandedness/control. For example, according to Greening et al. (2010) ,"Authoritative parents tend to be flexible, sensitive and warm in their parenting style, thereby promoting the children's autonomy, while still holding reasonable demands of them" (p. 358-359). Another category "authoritarian" parenting styles describes parents who tend to be less sensitive and flexible than authoritative parents, and who tend to place many restrictions and roles on their children, stressing factors such as: (a) maturity, (b) obedience, and (c) compliance. A third category is permissiveness or indulgence in which parents provide very little restrictions on their children. The final category reflects parents who are uninvolved in their children's lives or neglectful. According to Greening et al. (2010), very few parents fall into this category; however, children of these parents may fare the worst. In their study, Greening et al (2010) examined the authoritative and authoritarian parenting styles ...
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