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Baumrind Parenting Style

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Parenting Styles Hanna Lagman Los Angeles Harbor College Abstract Parenting styles play an important role in a child’s development. Diana Baumrind identified four parenting styles: authoritative, authoritarian, indulgent, and neglectful. According to Baumrind, the authoritative style works best. In order to understand parenting practices in other cultures, Mexican families and Caucasian Non-Hispanic families will be compared. It is hypothesized that the Mexican families utilize the authoritarian parenting style, while the Caucasian Non-Hispanic parents utilize authoritative parenting style. All families were given a questionnaire to compare the parent’s parental practices across two cultural groups. It was anticipated that the families would differ in parental styles; however, there were no differences between the parenting styles within the cultural groups. Parenting Styles Developmental Theory In 1971, Diana Baumrind categorized different parenting styles by observing middle-class parents interacting with their children (Belsky, 2010, p. 201). Baumrind’s parenting styles influence the field of child development and have been widely cited. In her research, she developed four parenting styles: authoritative, authoritarian, indulgent, and neglectful. They are analyzed by two factors: responsiveness and demandingness. Parental responsiveness refers to how parents respond to the child’s needs. Parental demandingness refers to the parent’s

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