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Parenting styles
Background.—Over the past decades, the emphasis on demandingness are instrresponds to meet needs; avoiding ‘‘convenience’’ par-
enting such as schedule feeding and crying it out; and
An indulgent parenting style results when there is high maintaining balance between a healthy marriage and time
parental responsiveness and low parental demandingness. for self. Focusing on the attachment between infant
Such parents are nontraditional and lenient, do not require and parent indicates a high responsiveness style with
mature behavior in their children, permit considerable self
regulation, and avoid confrontation. This style is often char-
acterized as parenting by default. Table 1.—Typology of Parenting Styles
With low parental responsiveness and high parental de-
mandingness, parents tend to demand obedience without
explanation and focus on status. Such a parenting approach
is termed authoritarian.
Low parental responsiveness and low parental demand-
ingness produce an uninvolved parent. Even though this
approach is within the normal range of parenting, it con-
tains an element of neglect or rejection that borders on a
deviant parenting style.
Choice of parenting style has a certain degree of impact
on children’s well-bei